1 OMG.

2 Your Christina Hendricks moment of Zen.

3 Love those titties.

4 Finally!

5 Bikini engineer babe (and rest of car-designing team) suspended over using Engineering Dept property for photo-shoot including the car the team designed and made. Team banned from attending car-making-engineering competition in the States.

See? Our universities are full of crap just like yours!

6 KITTEH!

7 5 Yeah,I saw that on The Blaze.

8 Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 15, 2011 10:53 PM (zgZzy)

If I could be her support cups/bra for one fucking day. _Ahh.

9 I hate Adobe Flash.

10 First!

11 damn!

12 The morons seem to have some pent up somethingoranother ....... let them eat ONT .

13 I need a higher-res pic of the Waterloo FSAE bikini babe to properly calibrate my offendedness.

14 "So we are hereby launching a mission to be allowed to spend a few minutes examining the documents above, so can put the theories behind us and help the nation move on. We will pursue this mission through a number of different avenues, official and unofficial. And if and when we are successful in getting access to the documents, we will send our investigators to Hawaii and Alaska to examine them and finally reveal the truth."
Is this a "I will if she will" or "I will if he will" deal?

what do you guys think of this?

and this:  I guess the fact that hiring in "big law" has downsized, more folks are going to the government where it's fun:  "And the biggest irony of all? It's been rumored that the only reason the FBI got their hands on him is because Full Tilt or Poker Stars (the companies he used to work for and stole from) tipped off the FBI that he was going to be traveling to the United States last year."

A lot of unemployed people were apparently keeping themselves afloat by doing this.  who knew?

15 11 - Ha-HAH

16

Don't go see Atlas Shrugged, it was horrible. did anyone else here see it. I really need to gripe. I've been hyping it on the side bar for over a month and called local theaters to get it here and was so unbelievably disappointed.

17 g'evening, 'rons

18 And you can't even see the high-beams for goodness sake!

19 Why don't you just give up on the idea that I'll say anything nice about any Republican who isn't a bland policy wonk and Beltway insider

And shut up already, I'm just an analyst doing my job

20 The car's, I mean, perverts.

21 I never needed a "cool" phone to to get excited in the oval office.

22 hi all
back from the movie

23 What the fuck are you stutterin' pricks doin' here? Goodfellas is on TNT

24 how was it, chemjeff?

25 back from the movie

Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2011 11:01 PM (7mSYS)

do tell

26 #17 agreed. I just got called a lefty meatthroater on the last thread for saying so too. Id be offended if meatthroater wasn't my new favorite word.

27 Team banned from attending car-making-engineering competition in the States.

Well that's one way to make sure the few women who do take engineering majors get shunned by their peers. 

Conform or be damned, girls.

28

I went into the movie wanting it to be good. I was willing to overlook the cheap production value and the cheesy CGI, but I cannot recommned that anyone see this film.

As i said in the last thread, it was like watching a friend get raped.

The theater was sold out, literally elbow to elbow. There had to be 120 people in the theater.

I practically ran out at the end.  The ending was horrific. 

If there movie was 1 1/2 hours long, there was 2-3 minutes of good stuff and a few decent lines.

29 Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be an ONT Moron ..

30

chemjefff, i got back too.

It was horrible wasn't it?

The ending was physically painful to me. The book means so much to me(i know that sounds pathetic), but it does and I can't help but feel terrible that this movie will be most people's first experience with rand and it is going to scare them away.

31 Has anyone liked the movie?

32 Goodfellas is on TNT

National Treasure 2 is on USA.

Though I found Diane Kruger much more charming in Inglourious Basterds.

33 Re: #5: The Canadian Anti-Bikini League

"I knew that particular student, and she had been thinking about whether she could be feminine and an engineer at the same time," Lambert told the newspaper.

Not in Canada, apparently. You have to be dowdy and wear a Talibanbag.

I hope she takes up engineering in the USA.

34 Ben tell me how it was bad. Describe. Go ahead and barf it all up for me. Serious. I wanna know. I have a vicious migraine and I'm intderested in someone elses pain. Please excuse typos. I'm hella drugged.

35 Amazing 'X-ray style' images of ocean dwellers at night

36 29

I went into the movie wanting it to be good. I was willing to overlook the cheap production value and the cheesy CGI, but I cannot recommned that anyone see this film.

If there movie was 1 1/2 hours long, there was 2-3 minutes of good stuff and a few decent lines. Posted by: Ben at April 15, 2011 11:03 PM

If Ace went to see it tonight, his review when he gets home will take almost as long to read ..

37 "I knew that particular student, and she had been thinking about whether she could be feminine and an engineer at the same time," Lambert told the newspaper.


...and that's why women choose other careers.  Because you can't.

38 Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be an ONT Moron ..

Posted by: Henry Hill at April 15, 2011 11:03 PM (vdfwz)

Good to have goals, Hank. 

39 That kitteh is a fucking bully. That's a baby armadillo, fer christ's sake.

40

As i said in the last thread, it was like watching a friend get raped.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this was an exaggeration.

32 Has anyone liked the movie?

Posted by: USA at April 15, 2011 11:04 PM (YZISw)

I think we're at 1 plus and 2 minuses so far. Or 9 minuses if you count Ben's separately.

41 If Ace went to see it tonight, his review when he gets home will take almost as long to read .. ___ He'll rewrite the screenplay. And post both. In full.

42 Armadillo = LEPROSY (idiots...)

Shoot the armadillo, then wash the cat.

43 This is supposed to be Megyn Kelly's baby  link

It's a beautiful baby.

44

Ben tell me how it was bad. Describe. Go ahead and barf it all up for me. Serious. I wanna know. I have a vicious migraine and I'm intderested in someone elses pain.
Please excuse typos. I'm hella drugged.

I have  to get up at 5:30 tomorrow to drive 2 hours to go camping, but i am going to stay up and gripe about this movie because i am so pissed.

First of all, who here saw the end to Star Wars III. You know the scene where Darth Vader screams "NOOOOOO!" in the cheesiest scene in cinematic history?

How many here saw that and thought, you know that's a great way to end a film, let me try that?  Any hand up ? no. i thought so

45 He'll rewrite the screenplay. And post both. In full.

At least twice.  And then a coblogger will rehash it for us in excruciating detail.  You movie people are a caution, oh, yes, you are.

46 how was it, chemjeff?

Posted by: AltonJackson

Yeah. Ben seems a little disappointed with it.

47 Real lovers of the book are downright furious.  So, if you want to see it, guess it's this weekend cause the bad reviews will have legs and out of the theaters it will go.

48 You're all in serious trouble.



I'm not drinking tonight.

49 Okay, I looked at that Colin Quinn link in the video dump on the sidebar. Does anyone remember the name of that tv show he had a few years ago. He had a few comedians on who did commentary and jokes about various issues and events. Very politically incorrect and left me with the distinct impression that Quinn and many of his fellow comedians are not very liberal. Anybody remember the show.

50 Ben, half my theater broke out laughing at the ending.

51 Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 11:06 PM (uVLrI)

Stunning photos.

The first commenter at the link has to be a moron: I wonder how they taste.

52 Michigan Tech, a great engineering school, right next door in our U.P. will take her. It really needs more women.

53 wow,  I'm early.

54 So Darth Vader is in this movie too?  I don't remember that from the book, but you know, that's hollywood.

55

My future's so bright I gotta poke my eyes out!

 

56

That was me, I'm sorry. I thought people would come here and turf it and I didn't recognize the handle. Sounds like the movie really does suck. Mea Culpa.

_{Like "meathroater" though huh?}

57 40 That kitteh is a fucking bully. That's a baby armadillo, fer christ's sake. Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at April 15, 2011 11:08 PM

Now go home and get your fuckin' litterbox !!

58

I understand that in order to convert a 1200 page book into three 2 hour movies that you are going to have to cut charcters, scenes, etc.

However they cut sooo much and added soooo little. I am no exagerating, literally 10 full minutes of the entire film is nothing but scenic shots of colorado and trains. It actually might be more than 10 minutes.

So you're going to take a book with tons and tons of great dialogue, witting retorts,  and then cut most of it and add in nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The film, like my review was so stilted. One scene didn't logically follow the next. The first part of the film takes place over almost a year, in the story, the director did such a bad job of making this feel like it took place over an extended period of time. There would be one two minute scene and then another scene would start that was supposed to have taken place 5-6 months later, but it didn't feel like it at all.

The music and scenic shots were just over the top. How could you spend so much time in this film on trees?? Trees people!

Francisco is in it for maybe 2 minutes. His dialogue with Rearden at Rearden's anniversary party was cut to almost nothing. It is one of my favorite scenes in the book and it felt like it was rewritten by an monkey with a typewritter.

 

59 Have to admit AS is my fave book and I forgive its stilted parts and cry every time I read the part where cheryl taggart jumps off the bridge when she realizes she had jim and dagny confused witheach other the whole time.

60 Diversity, no worries. All is forgiven.

61 I'm not drinking tonight.

Posted by: K~Bob at April 15, 2011 11:12 PM (L6o2V)

Lock-up?  We can start a bail fund, dude, just say the word . . .

62

 

63 I liked it when Dagny attacked the rebel base on Hoth with her Rearden-Metal AT-ATs, though.

64 BTW Ben, if you're still here,

THANKS a lot for linking directly to Andrew Sullivan in that sidebar story.  I had to wash out the fiber optic lines in my cable, and then strip and clean all the coax and cat5 in the house.

My computer is starting to ask about Raw Muscle Glutes, too.

65

Ben, half my theater broke out laughing at the ending.

my heart dropping in my chest. I was looking at the note ellis wyatt left, one of the more powerful parts of the movie and they added her frigging screaming.

"Here, it's yours. I left it how i found it."  There is so much meaning in that statement and they ruined it.

Some people in my theater laughed as well.

And the voice message. Dear god.

 

66 I gotta go shred the paper, shred the paper ..

67

Have to admit AS is my fave book and I forgive its stilted parts and cry every time I read the part where cheryl taggart jumps off the bridge when she realizes she had jim and dagny confused witheach other the whole time.

I think Ayn Rand modeled that after Dostoyevesky. He married as stupid girl just to make her happy. She ended up committing suicide.

68

Why can't we ever have a self-proclaimed good ONT? Why do they always have to proclaim their own suckiness? That should be OUR job.

69

So, we still have no comments from some who sat through the movie.

You people are like the Bizarro Kos Kids.

Ben, Go back.  Don't "walk out". and report back

70 Ben, Go back.  Don't "walk out". and report back

Uh, he didn't walk out. Did you not read the part where he talked about the ending?

71 The best part was a 30 second slow pan of a bunch of gd trees right in the middle of the bridge sequence. It was at that point i formally apologized to the girlfriend for dragging her along.

72 60% of my friends liked "Atlas Shrugged", but I really only have 2 friends. They weren't sure how good it was.

73 Thanks, Peaches!

No, just working and stuff. Coding and sheetin' (spread-sheetin' that is).

Hey, is "spread-sheeting" what Larry Craig was talking about?

74

And the voice message. Dear god.

 Posted by: Ben

 

Lemme guess.  "If you build, they will come".   Right?  Hey, that was in another movie too.

75 Ok so I was right Frisco's hardly in it? Um... yeah id be pissed too. Go aheaD and rant he makes the most important points beut g-d forbid he talk about whatmoney really is and wake folks UP!

76

So, we still have no comments from some who sat through the movie.

You people are like the Bizarro Kos Kids.

Ben, Go back.  Don't "walk out". and report back

I did stay the entire film. I said i was tempted to leave.

Also, if you never read the book or don't like Rand, definately don't see the film. It is Lifetime quality, in writing and cinematic value, at best!

77 How could you spend so much time in this film on trees?? Trees people!

You don't have to pay trees.

78 You know, I'm sittin' on this 65 Impala and watchin' a 747 take off from Idlewild Airport in 1963

When I figure out how to go back in time on purpose, I'm kickin' the shit out of Batts again, because it was that much fuckin' fun

79 well, my review of the movie isn't as negative as Ben's.

Part 1 ends when Ellis Wyatt goes on strike.  I didn't think the ending was that bad.  It was a bit overacted, sure.

My biggest complaint was that you really would have a hard time with the movie if you hadn't read the book.  The movie doesn't do a good job explaining what the looters are up to, or what all the separate market-destroying ideas are all about (like the 'anti-dog-eat-dog bill') - i.e., why they seem like good ideas to them.  Otherwise they are just comic book villains, evil for the point of being evil.  The movie didn't go quite that far but it did make them look kinda ridiculous.

I don't think the movie did a good job at all with James Taggart.  He is both bumbling and evil at the same time.  That's not how I remember him from the book.

I do think the movie got Hank's wife, Lillian, down to a tee.

The movie is not going to win over any converts from anyone who didn't read the book.  They will most likely just leave the movie confused.

80 Ayn Rand raped my childhood.

81 60% of my friends liked "Atlas Shrugged", but I really only have 2 friends. They weren't sure how good it was.

Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson

So Sparky, you aren't so good with numbers. huh? 

82

Ok so I was right Frisco's hardly in it? Um... yeah id be pissed too. Go aheaD and rant he makes the most important points beut g-d forbid he talk about whatmoney really is and wake folks UP!

To be fair, the money speech isn't until the second part of the book if my memory serves me right.

However, Francsico still plays a major role in part one, well not in the movie.

Part of what pisses me off is the wasted filler material in the film.  They left out so much and didn't keep anything.

I'm guessing, based on this movie, that they will probably cut the money speech to nothing and in part three have john galt's 60 page speech cut to a text message.

 

83 you saw that mash-up of AS/BHO that Ace posted this afternoon?  How long until we see the leftards making similar mash-ups, cut to support high-speed rail?

_{I hear Slow Joe Biden likes to nap on the train...}

84 "my heart dropping in my chest. I was looking at the note ellis wyatt left, one of the more powerful parts of the movie and they added her frigging screaming."

But that's appropriate, I think - Dagny had risked everything to create the John Galt line specifically to transport Wyatt's oil, and now it's all gone.  What is she supposed to do?

85 Wait, you mean a 1000+ page book doesn't translate well into a movie?

86

Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson

So Sparky, you aren't so good with numbers. huh?

 

So, back to lurking, you cruel bastard.

87 My biggest problemis that dagny wasn't portrayed as a remarkable or even very special woman. She was a normal person surrounded by blithering idiots. Maybe that was part of the point?

88 ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz_{zzzzzzzzzzz.........}

89 Fandango critics average 27%, fans average 84%

Ruh roh.

You see, if the critics hate it I love it, *almost* always.

I'll probably see it tomorrow and come back here and say "what the *fuck* were you babbling about?!?"

90 Does Huff poo poo use every opportunity to bash the republicans and capitalism?  LINK

91 Some books just don't migrate well to the Big Screen

Prime example: The Perfect Storm

92 Jennifer Aniston claims she "feels like a dowdy soccer mom". Leaving aside the condescension, he most definitely does not. She's in my top 3 list.

93

So, back to lurking, you cruel bastard.

Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson

 

Just following through after you tee them up...

Stay. Go. Laugh. Cry.  It's all pretty melancholy here tonight.

94 Some books just don't migrate well to the Big Screen

fify (lookin' at you, Matthew McConnaughey)

95 #95 The fan average is being goosed. Mark it, and remember it.

96 Re. WI vote: canvas completed and Prosser wins by 7,316 votes. Floppentitsburg has three days to request a recount. I don't know if the vote tally means she'd have to pay for it herself.

97

I do think the movie got Hank's wife, Lillian, down to a tee.

I agree with that assessment. The actress they picked for her was perfect.

The guy who played Hank Rearden was good too, but how good can you be when you have nothing to work with.

Chemjeff.  Weren't there several scenes that absolutely made no sense and came out of nowhere?

For instance, the scene where she goes to the State Science Institute and meets Dr. Faris, they're talking for like 10 seconds and then he goes into this story about his three students at Patrick Henry University. It's literally out of no where. It was forced into the movie and the scene essentially ends abruptly after that.

Or how about Hugh Akston's character? What the helll happened there? He sound like a college stoner, had 3-4 lines and walked away.

 

I've been thinking about how to describe this movie, and i think i've come up with a good description.

You know how studios will describe movies as "based on real life events" or "inspired by real life events" in order to gin up interest, because people will say to themselves, "wow this actually happened! that's mind blowing".  However when you get out of the theater and google the actual story, you find out that it wasn't really "based" on a real story.  In fact it was so loosely based on that story that it bore no resemblance to it at all when given further thought. A good example would be the Mothman Prophecies, which was a great movie. You find out the Point Pleasant Bridge collapsed and had nothing to do with some mothman.

Well, in that vain,  this movie is loosely based on a book written by Ayn Rand.

98 Atlas Shrugged sucked that bad, ay?

I never expected less.  I figure if a movie isn't funded by a major studio and directed by a professional with real actors, it's essentially straight to video tripe.  With this movie the most I could ever trully hope for was passable.

But it smokes cock.  Well, that wasn't unexpected.

I'll wind up buying the DVD anyway cause, as I said last night, I'm a bit of a Rand devotee.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em, my fellow Morons!

99 I have only read AS once. I couldn't force myself to hit it again, like I usually do with books I liked. The 60-odd page speech by Galt is the dealbreaker for re-reading, I guess.

However, I might give 'er a go again in a few months, while watching the riots and stuff.  I think I'd rather sit though the first season of "My Little Pony" or all of the "Scream" movies before watching the AS movie, though.  It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it.

A ten-part series, though, each the equivalent of a 90 minute cinematic effort, then I'd get my hopes up. Each episode needs the "Masterpiece Theater" treatment, with recap, and interviews with folks like Piekoff (still alive? I dunno), Greenspan, and Iowahawk.

100 Jennifer Aniston claims she "feels like a dowdy soccer mom".

Must be a People-magazine-manufactured-"star" thing.

101 I'm sure Atlas Shrugged is the best thing anyone will see tonight.

102

I'll probably see it tomorrow and come back here and say "what the *fuck* were you babbling about?!?"

I'll take that bet.

 

103

I run Windows7, which btw sucks.  My computer tells me its time to load updates.  I never got a chance to see from who.  I aborted it but when I went to shut down it, because of the weather here, started running the updates again.  I didn't realize it, as I had turned from the computer and went upstairs.  I returned to find it downloading 23 of 24 updates.   I figured if it was bogus it was too late by then.  I turned my system back on. Apparently there were 15, 238 changes made.  I ran Norton as soon as things settled down from the boot up and everything seems to be normal so I guess they were Windows updates. 

It would be nice if they would fix there problem with midi.  It would be even nicer if they asked if you wanted the updates and gave you a chance to review the source before taking over your machine.

Anybody else have this experience recently?

104 Some books just don't migrate well to the Big Screen

"Some" is a good modifier. Silence of the Lambs and Goodfellas are much better than the books they were based on.

105

But that's appropriate, I think - Dagny had risked everything to create the John Galt line specifically to transport Wyatt's oil, and now it's all gone.  What is she supposed to do?

Did people in your theater laugh out loud at that scene? Did you not immediately think of the ending of Star Wars III? And wasn't the voicemail a bit ridiculous?

106 107 I'm sure Atlas Shrugged is the best thing anyone will see tonight.

Wrong.

107 I thought the movie was pretty good and so did the wife, neither of us have read the book.

108

Yo. what a week. I haz 22 more Michelob Ultras.

Game on and nice thread Maet.

109

A ten-part series, though, each the equivalent of a 90 minute cinematic effort, then I'd get my hopes up. Each episode needs the "Masterpiece Theater" treatment, with recap, and interviews with folks like Piekoff (still alive? I dunno), Greenspan, and Iowahawk.

This would have been much better had it been 10 or 15 parts.

110 Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 15, 2011 11:31 PM (2o7Ys)

When they do that, it's almost all security updates.  Probably your Norton said "oh finally, finally I'm workin my ass off here"

111 I talk to the trees,
But they don't answer me.

112 Jennifer Aniston claims she "feels like a dowdy soccer mom".

There's one "dowdy soccer mom" I'd like to, uh, feel.

113 Fandango has the one greatest skydiving training sequence ever. FKN Funny.

114 Wait, you mean a 1000+ page book doesn't translate well into a movie?
Who told you that?

115

Anybody else have this experience recently?

Posted by: Ohio Dan at April 15, 2011 11:31 PM

yesterday, I got hit with 23 updates on the work laptop (win7), and 18 on my ancient box at home (xp)

116 Did people in your theater laugh out loud at that scene? Did you not immediately think of the ending of Star Wars III? And wasn't the voicemail a bit ridiculous?

Nobody laughed in my theater.  They applauded.  And I guess I didn't stay long enough for the voicemail.

117

The Mothman Prophecies was a great movie?

Well, we are all special individuals here, with our own special talents and abilities, so we should just carefully respect the differences in judgement and opinion that we have, and realize that what binds us together is greater than what could ever possible divide us.

Having said that, I think I will leave that one alone. 

118 "This is john galt speaking" in eight parts on youtube is wonderful. Watch it to get the bad taste out of your moth. Think of it as brain bleach. Every high school student should watch it. Its cleansing.

119 Lets get this blog started baby. I haz 19 beers left plus I'm still working off the two lagers from the ahem "business" lunch at motomoto sushi house.

120 Did you not immediately think of the ending of Star Wars III?

no I didn't, actually

121 The irony may be that people who have never read the book will love the movie.

122 #102 Oops. "canvass".

123 The girlfriend just summed it up nicely. "Its like everyone was a robot. And retarded. They were robarted."

124

Nobody laughed in my theater.  They applauded.  And I guess I didn't stay long enough for the voicemail.

it came on when it said "The end of part 1"

125 Meh, movie reviews have become religious arguments anyway.

126

The Mothman Prophecies was a great movie?

i thought for a horror movie it was very good. Horror movies on the whole tend to be pretty lame, but i enjoyed it.

 

127 it came on when it said "The end of part 1"

was it after the credits?

128

 Meh, movie reviews have become religious arguments anyway.

Eh, It's just my opinion, I am trying to save people the 10 bucks and disappointment.

129

Lets get this blog started baby. I haz 19 beers left

Yeah except you said Michelob Ultra. So it's more like 6 beers.

130 If someone who loves, loves the book, directs the movie, then sometimes they get bogged down in minutia and I think that's when the editors who are well, editors get involved and it never ends well.  I think sometimes it should be someone who hasn't really formed that much of a strong option.  The product is usually better.

131 I talk to the trees,
But they don't answer me.

Posted by: ayn rand at April 15, 2011 11:33 PM (Y1DZt)

Perhaps because you are a bit long-winded?

132

 it came on when it said "The end of part 1"

was it after the credits?

no. She screams NOOOOOO, it says "this is the end of part 1" and then the voice mail comes on. It's literally all within 10-15 seconds.

133 51 Okay, I looked at that Colin Quinn link in the video dump on the sidebar. Does anyone remember the name of that tv show he had a few years ago. He had a few comedians on who did commentary and jokes about various issues and events. Very politically incorrect and left me with the distinct impression that Quinn and many of his fellow comedians are not very liberal. Anybody remember the show.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 11:12 PM (seRb5)

I believe that would be Tough Crowd.

134 "Some" is a good modifier. Silence of the Lambs and Goodfellas are much better than the books they were based on.
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 15, 2011 11:31 PM

The Natural was an enjoyable movie, but the book by Bernard Malamud absolutely sucked, even Malamud himself said he liked the movie better

135 The irony may be that people who have never read the book will love the movie.

Posted by: curious

Life is full of irony and melancholy.  So in that way, the movie is just like real life, isn't it?  Or....maybe not.

We've all become robarted.

136

If someone who loves, loves the book, directs the movie, then sometimes they get bogged down in minutia and I think that's when the editors who are well, editors get involved and it never ends well.  I think sometimes it should be someone who hasn't really formed that much of a strong option.  The product is usually better.

Ace has made this point. A book is essentially a movie you get to direct and imagine in your own head. So someone elses vision of it is never going to be as good.

I understand that all too well. As was pointed out here, most books don't translate well into movies. I had that in mind. I wasn't expecting a perfect telling of the novel, but they didn't stay true to very much.

I guess I don't blame the director entirely. It was simply too much to fit into 2 hours, but they could have made much better use of their time.

137

Eh, It's just my opinion, I am trying to save people the 10 bucks and disappointment.

Posted by: Ben at April 15, 2011 11:39 PM (DKV43)

I wasn't just referring to your posts, we're down to people bashing random movies they hate, people defending those movies, ad nauseam.

Next it will be which foods taste worse.

138 137 If someone who loves, loves the book, directs the movie, then sometimes they get bogged down in minutia and I think that's when the editors who are well, editors get involved and it never ends well.  I think sometimes it should be someone who hasn't really formed that much of a strong option.  The product is usually better.

So what the hell do you know?

139

The Natural was an enjoyable movie, but the book by Bernard Malamud absolutely sucked, even Malamud himself said he liked the movie better

Field of Dreams is a perfect example.

140 Can we at least throw Joe Morgenstern in the mix?

141 I never expected less.  I figure if a movie isn't funded by a major studio and directed by a professional with real actors, it's essentially straight to video tripe.  With this movie the most I could ever trully hope for was passable.

Trouble is that you get slick production values to cover over a shitty story with socialist propaganda from opening to closing credits ..

142 I'm really impatient and tired anyway, I'd better wander off before I force-choke a bitch.

Peace out.

143 huh. guess I blocked the voicemail out of my mind then.  oh well.

yeah the Dr. Faris scene was strange.  at first it was intended to demonstrate the politicized nature of science in that age, which is fine.  then he starts talking about his three students.  I guess if you think real real hard about it, what Dr. Faris is trying to say is that because he believes he failed in his job in teaching his students, that now his scientific soul has been crushed and now he is a broken man, just doing the "science" that his government paymasters tell him to do.  But that is not at all obvious from the scene.

144 There WERE some truly funny scenes in there though.  But they are only funny to non-socialists.  Which makes them even funnier.

145 The irony may be that people who have never read the book will love the movie.
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 11:36 PM

That's what I'm hoping; maybe it will open some eyes.  The trailers I've seen seem to touch on the underlying themes of the book, but then again, I've read it and I know the story.

I mean, hand most people a 1000+ page book and they'll say "no, thanks".  Ask them if they want to go to a movie, and they'll do it.

146 Ok I have a theory, crurious. My ex was an editor and he could make any footage suck or shine. MAYBE the one or two of the senior editors fuckin hated this movie. That would create the problem ben described.

147 Stay. Go. Laugh. Cry. It's all pretty melancholy here tonight. ( * ) ( * ). Booobehhhsssss!!!!! If that doesn;t cheer you up, even chemjeff's hello kitteh links won't work.

148

70 I am no exagerating, literally 10 full minutes of the entire film is nothing but scenic shots of colorado and trains. It actually might be more than 10 minutes.

Sounds like the opening of Manos: The Hands of Fate. An opening sequence featuring nothing but the main family driving and looking at the Texas landscape for several minutes while we wait in vain for the "movie" to actually start.

And then we're sorry when it does.

 

149

OK, I got a cryptic message from AOSHQ's regional adjunct home office advising we need to interject one of the following topics:

1.  Snark over Gabe's tachycardia induced happy gran mal seizure over John Boehner's super awesome budgetary brinksmanship or

2.  See above.

150 DAMMIT NEW THREAD.

Saw Atlas Shrugged. One word: Meh.
Oh, and I brought someone who doesn't get it.

She still doesn't get it.

The movie was a flop. Sorry. Won't be no Part 2. James Gandolfini would make a good Cuffy Meigs though.

151 Next it will be which foods taste worse. Pfft, Indian. Duh.

152 Can we at least throw Joe Morgenstern in the mix?
Rhoda's husband?

153 The Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival is this weekend in San Fran.

154 Pfft, Indian. Duh. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 15, 2011 11:50 PM (ExD1J) British.

155 Rhoda's husband?

(golf clap)

156 #158 Dot or feather?

157 I guess if you think real real hard about it, what Dr. Faris is trying to say is that because he believes he failed in his job in teaching his students, that now his scientific soul has been crushed and now he is a broken man...
Were they always texting in class, chemjeff?

158

In the book, Dr Faris' frustration with Francisco D'Anconia, Ragnar Danneskjold and John Galt is meant to imply,  I think, that even to the "brilliant scientist" there are things that he simply could not comprehend.  That there are ideas that are bigger and more important than science.

John Galt doesn't pursue his PhD in Physics, but instead goes on to work for 20th Century Motors and becomes an inventor, and invents this fabulous device that is reminiscent of Tesla, that can extract energy out of the Earth's natural magnetic field, but walks out when the new sharing and benefits plan is announced at 20th Century Motors, and vows to stop the motor that drives the world.  If I were making the movie, I think that would be one of the early scenes, and then let the story begin to tie together the disparate lives and people in it.

159 The irony may be that people who have never read the book will love the movie.
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 11:36 PM

No way in hell. I think even Chemjeff would agree with me. If you didn't read the book, you would have absolutely no idea what was going on or what the message was.

160 British. Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team a Au contraire. You can get lots of really tasty fair there now.

161 You should never just let "update" install without checking first to see what it's gonna do.  Back when MS was cramming IE8 on everyone's box, it really screwed over several developers. The only way to back it out was to reload Windows.

You don't a massive gob of security updates unless you've been avoiding updates.

If nothing else, USE BACKUP.  Every now and then make a decent backup and you'll be much happier.


----


Robarted?  Shouldn't that be "Robarded" (or are we afraid zombie Jason Robard will claw his way out and sue us?)

162 159 Can we at least throw Joe Morgenstern in the mix?
Rhoda's husband?

Posted by: andycanuck at April 15, 2011 11:50 PM (Y1DZt)

<LOL...

163 Dot or feather? dot. is native american food even considered a separate type? fry bread is da bomb though.

164 Dot or feather?
Motorcycle.

165 Please have a heart and share your leftover Milk Duds with Roger Ebert.

166

OK... this is how this is going to breakdown.

We're going to divide up in two teams.

Those that want to dissect the Thornbirds

and those that don't.

 

167 Beeb how can you say indian tastes worst everyone KNOWS its ethiopian cuisine! Indian food is DELICIOUS!

168 Au contraire. You can get lots of really tasty fair there now. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 15, 2011 11:53 PM (ExD1J) But is it British?

169

Anybody else have this experience recently?

Yep. 20+ updates yesterday...crashed my system and I had to restore.

170 No way in hell. I think even Chemjeff would agree with me. If you didn't read the book, you would have absolutely no idea what was going on or what the message was.

Posted by: Ben at April 15, 2011 11:53 PM (DKV43)

And yet, trending in teh #2 spot on Yahoo right now is "Ayn Rand."  So, perhaps a shitty movie will generate some interest in the basic premise.  Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth here on teh HQ.

171 Next it will be which foods taste worse.

Cauliflower.

172 Ben, the girlfriend never read the book and reports that she understood what was going on, "very straightforward." Again, robarted.

173 Indian food is DELICIOUS!

Posted by: gushka

 

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooo! (facepalm)

174 which food tastes worse?
oh that's easy, anything with raw fish

175 I'm so hungry right now I'd eat Ethiopian food out of a vending machine at a truck-stop without microwaving it first

176

Please have a heart and share your leftover Milk Duds with Roger Ebert.

WTH is he going to chew with?  His lower jaw is gone, isn't it?

Oh, never mind.

177

Indian food is DELICIOUS!

Aloo Naan is teh bomb!

178 Cauliflower. Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 15, 2011 11:56 PM (0vDuM) Love the cauliflower. Frakking hate onions.

179 I watch The Dot and the Line, a romance in lower mathmatics, with my 6 year old granddaughter.  I hadn't watched it in years and even more since I had read it.  Back then I missed the geek humor in it like "the moral of the story is, To the vector go the spoils."  One of my favorite toys was the Spirograph.

180 Stossel's show last night was pretty much devoted to the movie coming out, and he had on the Producer, Director, and one of the actors. The whole 3 parter was done for 20 million, so I am not really going to expect top line acting and effects in it. 20 million puts it in the same production value as "Jackass 3" and "She's Outta My League", and that is if the entire 20 was spent just on the first. In all likelihood, it's budget was probably about 8 million, which about no movie can be made for today. Hell, "Logan's Run" cost that much 35 years ago.

181 Yep. 20+ updates yesterday...crashed my system and I had to restore.
I run XP Pro and when I shutdown after ONTing, it ran a minimum of 18 updates in a row (but without a problem). I laid in bed for the 5+ minutes it took because I was nodding off badly.

182 184 I'm so hungry right now I'd eat Ethiopian food out of a vending machine at a truck-stop without microwaving it first

Have I got a deal for you!

183 dissect the Thornbirds

What's to dissect, just a forbidden love story.  A girl trying to seduce a priest.  

184

 I'm so hungry right now I'd eat Ethiopian food out of a vending machine at a truck-stop without microwaving it first

Try the Egg Salad from the men's room!

185 oh that's easy, anything with raw fish Posted by: chemjeff at April 15, 2011 11:57 PM (7mSYS) Ruv sushi.

186

We should be at 438 by now. 

OK.  I've talked with Cletus and he's going to allow us to take the Kompressor off of Peaches AMG Benz and we can then used Racefan's Turbo boost and then we'll borrow Tatoo the Plane's nitro switch.

Piece it all together and we'll shoot this thing up to at least 185 barring a post-mortem on Rocky IV's cinematography.

187 Happy Marx Day

188 Motorcycle. We were talking bad, not good.

189
#44, Curious, thanks for the link to Megyn Kelly's little one.  What a little doll!

190

Ayn Rand was more of a philospher than a novelist.

Her books all full of dramatic tripe and cardboard characters spouting polemics. They read as if they were translated from some 30s Soviet Social Realism novel.

They made "Quiet Flows the Don" seem like a work of great subtlety.

And I am an admirer of most of her philosophy. That is what she should be remembered for.

191 I love Indian food.  Some of the best cuisine I've ever had was Indian, prepared by a very good chef who knew how to spice things perfectly.

British is pretty bad.  It's like Big Boy without the strawberry pie.

192

Love the cauliflower.

Roasted with Olive Oil and Garlic

193 Love the cauliflower.

FLINO!

194 Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth here on teh HQ.

Posted by: Peaches

 

Face it, it wouldn't be AoS HQ without someone wailing and gnashing their teeth.  It's a sign of the vibrant and vigorous bullshit that  we foist upon each other hourly.

It's Festivus every day here. And now with my list of grievances....

195 I hope I only get thunderstorms out of that tornado spawnin' storm when it gets here in VA tomorrow night.

Posted by: CDR M at April 15, 2011 11:54 PM (5I8G0)

Night, you say...Mr. RB is trying to get out of mowing the grass tomorrow, which is now about 6 inches high and full of weeds.  I don't think our local weather guy could've put heavy (rain) in the weather forecast one more time.

196 sushi sux.  it's raw!  do you know where that fish has been?

197 Indian food is DELICIOUS! Curry.... shuddeddddeerrrrrr

198 Somebody probably already mentioned this, but the stuff between your toes is called toe jam.

199

The Atlas Shrugged movie was fine enough considering the material they had to work with and the budget. I like the book and re-read several of my favorite parts frequently. But it is at least 600 pages too long and would have benefitted greatly from that amount of editing. That degree of editing was forced on the movie producers and for the most part they did a decent enough job. The only parts that I didn't really like was how they introduced Hugh Akston (as previously mentioned) and the ending voiceover by Ellis Wyatt which was a problem mostly because it was unneccessary and detracted from his parting statement (I left it the way I found it...).

On the plus side for the movie, the protagonists actually come off a bit warmer and more likeable than in the book. That might not hold, though, when John Galt becomes more prominent in the next two parts - both because of how the character was written and because of Paul Johannson's acting.

I think that the people who will hate the movie 1) weren't going to like it anyway because of their politics, or 2) think the book is better than it really is and because of that think the movie suffers by comparison.

Those latter people should go watch what Hollywood and Gary Cooper did to The Fountainhead and maybe they'll feel a little better.

200 do you know where that fish has been?

I know where it's going...

201 Try the Egg Salad from the men's room!
I'd have killed to get those worms.

202 How about some fish pedicure sushi?

203 Hell, "Logan's Run" cost that much 35 years ago.

Posted by: MrCaniac at April 15, 2011 11:58 PM (eKuOw)

Factoid from a family friend:

Alex Jones's mother was in "Logan's Run".

204 I love the fact that Bob Bechel's Brother was in it.  Stuff it little brother.

205 sushi sux. it's raw! do you know where that fish has been? Posted by: chemjeff at April 16, 2011 12:01 AM (7mSYS) Around the world.

206 This Kenyan shit sandwich we've been served with the last 2 years is no great shakes either.

207 We were talking bad, not good.
Have you eaten one? :^)

208 161

British.


Spotted Dick is just...scrumptious!

209

it's raw!  do you know where that fish has been?

Not all of it is raw, jeff.  Some is cured, some cooked.

But the Toro (Fatty Tuna) is what makes it.  That and the Ankimo (Monkfish Liver). 

210 Ruv sushi.

Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team

What a surprise. 

211 You know it just occurred to me... the WORST FOOD OF ALL is real mainland chinese chinese food. Its something you have to be ready for. UGH. I grew up in hawaii and I wasn't ready. Like stir fried cat. Or geletainized chiken feet. Eeew. Indian food is delicious even the rather humble fare.

212

it's raw! 

 

Help yourself to my Mirugai, Jeff!

 

213

I'm calling in the reinforcements:

Rum

 

214 Chilled monkey brain?

215 Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 12:01 AM (gdGPK)

Thank you . . . from the bottom of my hard little heart.

216 I'm taking Japanese lessons this summer and decided to check out the photos of the instructors. Nearly all are Japanese babes. From Japan.

217 But is it British? Oh yeah. I had so much fabulous food in Scotland in 06. Fresh beef, fish

218 TJ, the dialogue is interesting. That was one of her most hard-fought battles in writing novels.  Shakespeare's dialogue is interesting, too. It isn't how people actually talk, it's just what's worth listening to.

Who the hell want's "real dialogue?" You get that everywhere you go, and it's horribly dull, unless you have two, incredibly intelligent friends who hate each other.

Now that's interesting.

219

Face it, it wouldn't be AoS HQ without someone wailing and gnashing their teeth. 

Heh.  I've been grinding my teeth so hard in my sleep that I can barely open my mouth in the morning -- and I use a night guard.  I don't blame it on the 'rons, only the bad one sitting in the Oval Orifice, making due without the super-secret button that brings up a hidden flatscreen TV so he can't watch hoops with iReggie. 

220 what we need to do is commission a re-write of AS, and I know the perfect guy to do it:  Tom Clancy.

Think about it, Clancy could parse this story down to a svelte 600 pages that would read smoothly.

221 umm I don't think I want any of Roseanne Barr's mirugai, whatever that is

222

the stuff between your toes is called toe jam.

 

Have you tried the fromunda cheese?

223 226 Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 12:01 AM (gdGPK)

Thank you . . . from the bottom of my hard little heart.

Posted by: Peaches at April 16, 2011 12:07 AM (i1YkL)

Someone had to say it. And your heart is as warm as the desert sun....

224 Well, that's no fun. A production video from the set of The Hobbit was on YT the other day but it got pulled.

225

eman. I worked with the Japanese.

Mushi, mushi hai, hai.  That's what they say when the pick up the telephone and when they want to order the #4 at Dan's Sushi.

226 Who the hell want's "real dialogue?" You get that everywhere you go, and it's horribly dull

"And I'm, like, I'm the President of the United States. I always thought I was gonna have, like, really cool phones and stuff."

227

Rum

 

Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 12:06 AM (iHfo1)

You rang?

228

Posted by: chemjeff at April 16, 2011 12:08 AM (7mSYS)

You know you are curious.

229

Those latter people should go watch what Hollywood and Gary Cooper did to The Fountainhead and maybe they'll feel a little better.

I wasn't aware they'd made that.  The Fountainhead is the only Rand book I've read so far.  I enjoyed it but really couldn't imagine how it would translate into a movie.  Obviously not well.

230

Alex Jones's mother was in "Logan's Run".

Posted by: TexasJew

Jenny Agutter was in it. I think her costume in that movie launched more seamen than all the navies of the world have in history.

231 Just back from 'Tot' Shabbat and I have to say seeing a dozen 2 and 3 year olds singing an off key rendition of 'Shabbat Shalom' restored my spirit after what has been an awfully depressing week.

232 The worst food in the world is the Deviled Egg.

233

Totally off topic, but has anyone seen President Obama's bracket picks for the NBA playoffs yet?

I think they would be very interesting, and should help him prepare for his next job, at ESPN.

234 Good evening morons.

What a bitch of a day/week.

235 You know you are curious.

not that curious.

236

Hi Rum. 

How's the Porsche running? 

237 eman. I worked with the Japanese. Mushi, mushi hai, hai. That's what they say when the pick up the telephone and when they want to order the #4 at Dan's Sushi. Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 12:09 AM (iHfo1) Noted for future reference.

238

227
I'm taking Japanese lessons this summer and decided to check out the photos of the instructors.

Nearly all are Japanese babes. From Japan.

If they looked like this, any of them, I'd already be fluent in Japanese.

http://tinyurl.com/42kk22w

239 Rum, you have a porsche?  wow!

240 sushi sux. it's raw Not all of it chemjeff. i only eat the cooked stuff. the raw stuff really really dislikes me

241 Damn sock

242

I wasn't aware they'd made that.  The Fountainhead is the only Rand book I've read so far.  I enjoyed it but really couldn't imagine how it would translate into a movie.  Obviously not well.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at April 16, 2011 12:10 AM (p+D2G)

Cooper was an anti-communist and an admirer of Rand.

The problem is the camera work was from the propaganda films of the 20's and 30's.

I almost expected the Soviet Men's Choir to start singing. Very strange anachronistic (even for 194 imagery...

243

How's the Porsche running? 

Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 12:11 AM (iHfo1)

Porsche? Um, wut?

My dad has one...he's also selling it, btw. It's a 2001 Boxster if anyone's interested. It just got a new clutch and it's in excellent condition.

244 ...and the low battery says it's bedtime for Bonzo.

'Night, morons.

245 well the only sushi I have tried has been raw.  didn't know that there was another kind.

246 chemjeff, what did you decide on for a new ride?

247

Chilled monkey brain?

The mister ate that with his army buddies when they took a hop over to Malaysia in the late '80s.  He has pix of them sitting around in a circle eating it.  He said it wasn't bad.  I just finished reading The Hot Zone, which is all about monkeys who brought the Ebola virus to the U.S. as well as simian hemorrhagic fever.  Where's Kratos, anyway?

248 Or maybe it's a 2000 Boxster. I think it's a 2000.

249 oh, by the way: I'm pretty close to submitting an offer on a house!

250 Man, what a bunch of chau-food-nists.  I love Indian, Mexican, Chinese (even the stuff that's more mainland), French, German, Italian, Moroccan, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic/Lebanese/Syrian,... it's great stuff.

Eat at the Russian Tea Room in Chicago sometime. It's expensive, but THAT's where you should go for Borscht.

Sashimi is my favorite, though. One word of advice: never fall for an all-you-can-eat deal at a sushi and sashimi place.

When you fill up on raw fish, you have ZERO room left for anything. Not even Jello. Certainly not a wafferrr-theen mint.

251 242 Just back from 'Tot' Shabbat and I have to say seeing a dozen 2 and 3 year olds singing an off key rendition of 'Shabbat Shalom' restored my spirit after what has been an awfully depressing week.

Posted by: Dumb_Blonde at April 16, 2011 12:11 AM (iQ0WQ)

L'cha Dodi (the orignal tune, not that Reform travesty) is so beautiful..

252 Shakespeare? All the guy did was string together a bunch of famous quotes.

253

Rum, sorry. I got you confused with the L.A. moronette, atty.  What's her handle again?

 

254

chemjeff, what did you decide on for a new ride?

My Mirugai.

255 Posted by: Andrew S at April 16, 2011 12:13 AM (aaW0M) That's what I'm talking about. And my classmate is a Chinese/Vietnamese babe.

256 Genghis, if I wanted disappointment, I would read my own threads. Worst ONT ever. Oh and evening morons, moronettes, and Kratos.

257 My dad has one...he's also selling it, btw. It's a 2001 Boxster if anyone's interested. It just got a new clutch and it's in excellent condition.
Do you come with the car?

258

I wasn't aware they'd made that.  The Fountainhead is the only Rand book I've read so far.  I enjoyed it but really couldn't imagine how it would translate into a movie.  Obviously not well.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver

 

It was.....interesting.  Gary Cooper was actually Ayn Rand's choice to play the part of Howard Roark.  He greatly resembled Ayn's husband, Frank Connor.

After the premier, Cooper himself said that he "missed it", in the portrayal of Howard Roark. They actually had a lot of the right parts.  Raymond Massey was great as Gail Wynand, and a young and very pretty Patricia Neal was perfect as Dominique Francone.  But Cooper was wooden as Howard Roark.

259 269 My dad has one...he's also selling it, btw. It's a 2001 Boxster if anyone's interested. It just got a new clutch and it's in excellent condition.
Do you come with the car?

Posted by: moron at the autoshow at April 16, 2011 12:18 AM (Y1DZt)

If you can only afford an 11 year old Porsche, no.

260 229 TJ, the dialogue is interesting. That was one of her most hard-fought battles in writing novels.  Shakespeare's dialogue is interesting, too. It isn't how people actually talk, it's just what's worth listening to.

Who the hell want's "real dialogue?" You get that everywhere you go, and it's horribly dull, unless you have two, incredibly intelligent friends who hate each other.

Now that's interesting.

Posted by: K~Bob at April 16, 2011 12:07 AM (L6o2V)

then you would have been one of the incredibly cruel people who used to JUST LOVE when my ex husband before he was an ex used to foist his girlfriend and i into the same social situations and expect us to act friendly with each other.

lol i hear some thought it was ticket worthy.

both smart pretty women. but her mom was a nun who got married had 12 kids and raised her on a farm in ND. i was raised by a marine to be a debutante in Los Angeles.

261 I gots to go to bed, because I have this laptop thingy while my 'puter is in for repair and, dammit, I'm glad I never bought one, they are the suck.  Better than my last 2 days of being off the grid, but only marginally.  Sweet dreams, morons . . . don't let the movie get you down. 

262 I learned 2 interesting political facts today:

(1) Apparently, the '74 Budget Act calls for budget resolutions to be passed exactly on April 15th.

(2) Before Obama's campaign speech the other day, the Republican Majority Whip was supposedly 12+ votes short on the Republican budget resolution.

263 Posted by: RushBabe at April 16, 2011 12:15 AM

The Hot Zone scared me, and now, I will not go into monkey countries.

Thankfully, I am pretty sure I never had a massive urge to go to monkey countries, since they seem to go hand in hand with bad plumbing countries, which I do not wish to visit either.

264 Read AS couple of times, though I don't have near the photographic recall of the characters. Maybe someone can do a synopsis using those internetz memes I saw earlier from that guy with the 206 page PhD dissertation. ----- I'm pretty sure we're gonna be hearing from a few guys about gettin banned from HA tonight. Allah went full retard on the NBC issue and is gettin eviscerated.

265

Posted by: Dumb_Blonde at April 16, 2011 12:11 AM (iQ0WQ)

I'm glad you had spiritual refreshment.  That's pretty amazing that they had tiny toddlers singing. Usually the little ones don't cooperate when it's "go" time.

This weekend is Palm Sunday.  All of our local Catholic churches begin the service outside and then have everyone process inside, following the priest.  We're supposed to have severe t'storms tomorrow from the same system that brought the tornados to other states...Should be fun.

266 But Cooper was wooden as __________. (Feel free to insert any character he played.)

267

Worst ONT ever.

Dude, Genghis brings the suck.  Consistently.  But tonight is one of his better efforts.

268 L'cha Dodi (the orignal tune, not that Reform travesty) is so beautiful..

I can't claim any familiarity. I'm an agnostic lapsed Catholic but my niece attends preschool at the temple. It's always a delight to be invited to services.

269 264 242 Just back from 'Tot' Shabbat and I have to say seeing a dozen 2 and 3 year olds singing an off key rendition of 'Shabbat Shalom' restored my spirit after what has been an awfully depressing week.

Posted by: Dumb_Blonde at April 16, 2011 12:11 AM (iQ0WQ)

Que chula, as we say down here on the border.. ;-)

Were any of them yours, Dumb_Blonde?

270 I believe they still have not found where the Ebola virus hides in between outbreaks.

271 274 I need to proofread-- that should be that he apparently had 12+ votes less than the entirety of the conference before Obama's speech.


xkcd: Craigslist Apartments

272 OMG, Larry Elder ripped Ayres a new asshole on the radio yesterday!!!!! on hannity now

273 about gettin banned from HA tonight. Posted by: shecky at April 16, 2011 12:21 AM (DJBHO) Being banned from hot air is like being "forced" to eat bacon and snort blow off a stripper.

274 I'm pretty sure we're gonna be hearing from a few guys about gettin banned from HA tonight. Allah went full retard on the NBC issue and is gettin eviscerated. Posted by: shecky at April 16, 2011 12:21 AM (DJBHO) Huh? Wha?

275 But the Toro (Fatty Tuna) is what makes it.


Oh yeah *drools* I haven't had sushi in a week, i k now what i'm having for lunch tomorrow now.

276 Gushka, that isn't what I had in mind. Sounds excruciating.

I meant like, a world leader in Business sitting down with a famous Political Science prof.  No that's bad. PolySci profs are nearly all lefty loons these days (not so much back when I was in kollidge).  Howbout a famous chemical engineer?  And if they've nurtured a long and serious hate.

Now we're talkin.'

277 That's pretty amazing that they had tiny toddlers singing. Usually the little ones don't cooperate when it's "go" time.

Oh they were a hot mess but adorable!

278 280 L'cha Dodi (the orignal tune, not that Reform travesty) is so beautiful..

I can't claim any familiarity. I'm an agnostic lapsed Catholic but my niece attends preschool at the temple. It's always a delight to be invited to services.

Posted by: Dumb_Blonde at April 16, 2011 12:22 AM (iQ0WQ)

I'm sorry... L'cha Dodi means  "The Sabbath Queen" and at the end of the prayer, which is very beautiful, the entire congregation turns around, faces the back of the synagogue (which always faces west, towards the setting sun) and greets the Queen. It is an ancient tradition.

Remember that the holiest day of the year in Judaism is not Yom Kippur, but the humble Sabbath. 

279 hand in hand with bad plumbing countries, which I do not wish to visit either.
This. (Unless you try holding it in for the trip.)

280 Heh. You know, that could be an art idea. Bacon pasties and a line of blow. Posted by: CDR M at April 16, 2011 12:25 AM (5I8G0) What do you mean "could be?"

281 In your dreams CDR.

282 How long before someone tries to make a movie out of the Windows 7 manual?

283 Oh yeah *drools* I haven't had sushi in a week, i k now what i'm having for lunch tomorrow now.

^{Posted by: booger at April 16, 2011 12:24 AM (9RFH1)}

I haven't had Sushi in 5 years...Montana sucks like that. 

It looks I'll be going to Seattle in late May.  I will eat Sushi twice a day for the week I am there.

284 If you can only afford an 11 year old Porsche, no. Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Apprentice Heh, another moron squished beneath rum's vibram soled stompy boots

285
I have a vicious migraine and I'm intderested in someone elses pain.
Please excuse typos. I'm hella drugged.

Posted by: gushka at April 15, 2011 11:06 PM (4YQ1e)

I feel for you. I have a medium pain threshold but I can't handle any kind of headache. I had one so bad one time I was slurring my speech. The ER doc took mercy and gave me something (fioranil w/ codeine?) that made me numb from the neck up.

I was just laid out for over two weeks with a backache and gobbled my Dad's Xanax to sleep through as much of it as possible. The one day I took only 2 Xanax in the morning I had two Heinekens around 6:00 in the evening and got a nasty headache. I hope whatever meds they give you help because headaches really suck.

So my back is better now but I woke up with classic symptoms of gout. Hurts like hell. Hopefully the flare up will go away in a day or two, but if it comes back I'll have to go see a doctor.

You said you were interested in someone else's pain!

286 What do you mean "could be?"

Posted by: CAC

 

Lee Harvey Oswald, buddy, I want to party with you!

287 Heh. You know, that could be an art idea. Bacon pasties and a line of blow. Powdered muff?

288 Is it me, or does anyone else find the format at HA and MM's site involves too damned much clicking-your-ass-off to find nothing?  I never go there unless someone sets me up with a link. Then I eject as fast as possible.

Allah and the Captain are too squishy for my mind to tolerate, too.

289 Ummm holy shit. Larry Elder got Bill Ayres to pretty much admit he is an unapologetic terrorist!!!

290 Crap, I was thinking. that since they were doing it in three parts that they were going to stick to the book.  Just like "Starship Troopers" gutted it...gawd I hate Hollywood.  I'll still watch it, just to send them the money...even though undeserved.  crap...

291

I haven't had Sushi in 5 years...Montana sucks like that. 

It looks I'll be going to Seattle in late May.  I will eat Sushi twice a day for the week I am there.

Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 12:27 AM (p0R89)

When I was in Bismarck two weeks ago, the East 40 restaurant on Hwy 1804 had "Suchi Night" and the damn place was packed with a hundred hungry drunks.

292 I believe they still have not found where the Ebola virus hides in between outbreaks.

That's why I was looking for Kratos.  That book came out in '94.  I was wondering if anything major was discovered since then and also if Kratos thought the author was an environut for his godlike pronouncements about rainforest destruction getting even with "human meat."

293 Re: Atlas Shrugged I thought it was cute how they still had newspapers in the year 2016.

294 I believe they still have not found where the Ebola virus hides in between outbreaks.

Two Words: Toe Jam

295

It looks I'll be going to Seattle in late May.  I will eat Sushi twice a day for the week I am there.

Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 12:27 AM (p0R89)

So you're not gonna be at my Medora drilling rig party?

296 chemjeff, what did you decide on for a new ride?

I decided not to get a new car for right now

297 Powdered muff?

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2011 12:29 AM (4Kl5M)

Nah, too many commenters here are body-hair phobic.

298 Allah and the Captain are too squishy for my mind to tolerate, too.

Posted by: K~Bob at April 16, 2011 12:29 AM (L6o2V)

Or the Captain and Tennille.

299

in Bismarck two weeks ago, the East 40 restaurant on Hwy 1804 had "Suchi Night"

 

Landlocked Sushi is not only scary, but it is what we call the hippy chicks at the University.

300

Ummm holy shit. Larry Elder got Bill Ayres to pretty much admit he is an unapologetic terrorist!!!

Did you like how he equivocated his domestic bombings of innocent civilians with "your government that's killing 6,000 people a week"?  What a nimrod.

301 ok I'm going to bed too
good night

302 Allah and the Captain are too squishy for my mind to tolerate, too.

Posted by: K~Bob

Or the Captain and Mr. Greenjeans.  Yes, they were quite squishy.

303 Nah, too many commenters here are body-hair phobic. Posted by: K~Bob at April 16, 2011 12:32 AM (L6o2V) It's a navigation aid.

304 So what the hell do you know?

Posted by: Erich von Stroheim at April 15, 2011 11:42 PM (FYCiJ)

hahahaha

305 Nah, too many commenters here are body-hair phobic. Fuck all y'all, then.

306

 ok I'm going to bed too
good night

It's about time. 

This Mirugai isn't going to eat itself!

307 288 Gushka, that isn't what I had in mind. Sounds excruciating.

I meant like, a world leader in Business sitting down with a famous Political Science prof.  No that's bad. PolySci profs are nearly all lefty loons these days (not so much back when I was in kollidge).  Howbout a famous chemical engineer?  And if they've nurtured a long and serious hate.

Now we're talkin.'

Posted by: K~Bob at April 16, 2011 12:24 AM (L6o2V)

it was i think most excruciating for her. She wanted so very badly to gloat.

but it was actually more fun for me.

you see... he was a wife beater and she was determined to have him all to herself! i really should thank her for what she did for me. the process sucked but i LOVE the result.

But i had fun verbally sparring. And the rules of collegiality and good manners made it all the more interesting for all involved. They were just WAITING to see when i would slip and say something Truly Awful, because they all knew i was capable of it.

308

Did you like how he equivocated his domestic bombings of innocent civilians with "your government that's killing 6,000 people a week"?  What a nimrod.

Posted by: RushBabe at April 16, 2011 12:34 AM (Ew27I)

I thought we were processing them faster than that.

309 Is it me, or does anyone else find the format at HA and MM's site involves too damned much clicking-your-ass-off to find nothing?
Yeah. It bothers me that the headlines now have a URL (when you hover your mouse pointer over the link to read where it's from or its original title/name) of their own making so you have to open the link to see what it's about. Before you could hover over the link to see what a headline with a link title of "Dude!" went to a Daily Mail article titled "woman-catches-boobs-in-escalator" to judge whether it was worth your time. Now you get nothing but their made up link name that leads to their page about it. Cheap device to hit whore.

BTW, what's the 'NBC thread'? I didn't see any homepage stories re. NBC.

310 It's a navigation aid. Happy ladder?

311

Nah, too many commenters here are body-hair phobic.

Body Hair is gross.

312 312

in Bismarck two weeks ago, the East 40 restaurant on Hwy 1804 had "Suchi Night"

 Landlocked Sushi is not only scary, but it is what we call the hippy chicks at the University.

Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 12:33 AM (p0R89)

No one died from it, it appears. There were a number of engineers from New Delhi there in that mob. I had the filet mignon, not wanting to wind up heaving in the snow.

It was strange, standing outside talking to them in -25 windchill. They were too drunk to give a shit.

313 Starts with "B" and it's not bacon. http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/

314 Hot Air's kind of a sucky site to navigate sometimes.  I don't go there as often as I used to, but I've noticed posts now and then where a poster notes they've used a word in their post, like "revolution" and some sort of spam filter thingie picks it up and won't let them post that word.

I do like many of the posters there, but they also allow too many trolls to keep their posting privileges than I would if I ran the place.

Plus, you can't say FUCK or any shit like that.  I like here more better.   

315

eman, the chinese/vietnamese babes, they are beautiful.

 

316

Ummm holy shit. Larry Elder got Bill Ayres to pretty much admit he is an unapologetic terrorist!!!

Did you like how he equivocated his domestic bombings of innocent civilians with "your government that's killing 6,000 people a week"?  What a nimrod.

Posted by: RushBabe at April 16, 2011 12:34 AM

Ayers was calling it "vandalism"

Bomber Billy loves to point out that he only hurt buildings and no one was killed. Kind of like spraying AK fire into a schoolyard and proclaiming yourself a humanitarian because none of the bullets hit anyone

317 Majorly OT but beautiful:

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring by Celtic Women.  You're welcome.

318 I like here more better.   

Posted by: Theresa D

 

That's "Mo bettah!"  

319 I went and saw the 10am showing this morning.  Wrote my review immediately after seeing it and pretty much agree with Ben - This movie sucked.  I am just happy I am not the only one who thought so, and for many of the same reasons.  It's too bad, I am not a fan of the book but I was hoping the movie would be good anyway.

320

CDR M and Ben,

Are you OK if we suspend Hot Air's hyperlink off the C/A blog?  Ed's pissed at me anyways and won't even show C/A trackbacks ever since I besmirched his name about 8 months ago.

 

321

No one died from it, it appears.

Once watched a hunting client order the 'Seafood Special' in Baker, Mt...he spent the next three days shitting like a sparrow with dysentery.  He couldn't walk 50 yards without running into the Shelterbelts.

I had to laugh, though. 

322 What's wrong with body hair?

Posted by: An Ewok at April 16, 2011 12:38 AM (5I8G0)

Er, uh, nothing, Wicket. Off to bed.  Say "hello" to Ace if ever comes home.

323 Obama is awesome and smart and he'd done things like .... ...... umm ......  .....
.... uh .....  .....

I thought these liners didn't leak ....

324 Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 12:41 AM (p0R89)

That's the poor man's way of having a high caloric.

325 Of the four of us who saw it, the two who'd read the book liked it while the two who hadn't didn't like it. I think that if you enjoyed the book, you'll like the movie, but if you haven't read it, you won't understand the movie. They just had to cut too much out, and it's still a talkie. But I hope it does well enough that I can look forward to the next installment.

326 Oh ... and can't freakin' wait to see Atlas ... limited showings in my area but I am definitely hitting it soon.  Fuck Roger Ebert, and I can say that because I'm the Ministry of Culture.

327 Article on The Hobbit movie

It will be shot shot in 3D at 48 frames per second.

328 I do like many of the posters there, but they also allow too many trolls to keep their posting privileges than I would if I ran the place.

Plus, you can't say FUCK or any shit like that.  I like here more better.   

Posted by: Theresa D at April 16, 2011 12:36 AM (2hQbY)

I forgot about those two problems. I think all of Breitbart's sites have the same problem. Too many loonies to make conversation possible. You have to have some intolerance for flame wars if you want a site to be decent for commentary.

We flame up here from time to time, but it's usually the non-regulars who stink up the place.

We do have some regular trolls though. They only get the boot when Ace is tired of their shzt.

329 Atlas Shrugged should have been done as a Fellini-styled (over)production. It would have been perfect. Well... except Fellini is dead.

330 Bomber Billy loves to point out that he only hurt buildings and no one was killed.
Wrong again, asshole.

331 eman, the chinese/vietnamese babes, they are beautiful. Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 12:37 AM (iHfo1) Absolutely. My classmate is a friend from work. She's half my age and if I were a young man I'd be chasing her like crazy. I like the way she can spot bullshit like a hawk. Especially mine.

332 Once watched a hunting client order the 'Seafood Special' in Baker, Mt...he spent the next three days shitting like a sparrow with dysentery.
Never get the Clams Casino either!

333 I love to post over at HA just to piss off those squishy pricks.

334 It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it.

I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me?

335 He couldn't walk 50 yards without running into the Shelterbelts. Haven't hear that word in ages.

336

^{Posted by: george costanza at April 16, 2011 12:45 AM (Y1DZt)}

I think he said to get the Consume.

337 I believe they still have not found where the Ebola virus hides in between outbreaks.

I think the last time around they concluded the first victim contracted it from a chimp he'd just killed and eaten.

338 my friend L who never read Dune went with me to see the Ridley Scott movie.
She called it "Ride A Wild Worm" and proclaimed it the funniest movie she ever saw.

339 349 It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it.

I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me?

Posted by: paladin at April 16, 2011 12:45 AM (nmc9V)

A damn sight better than Verhoeven's garbage.

340 349 It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it.

I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me?

Posted by: paladin at April 16, 2011 12:45 AM (nmc9V)

I loved the original 80s movie.

It was a a camp classic..

341 It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it. I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me? Posted by: paladin at April 16, 2011 12:45 AM (nmc9V) I liked it.

342 Did your horse accept the halter, Gushka, or did you have to go with the blouse instead?

343 A truly damned sock.

344 I think the last time around they concluded the first victim contracted it from a chimp he'd just killed and eaten. Posted by: Ace's liver at April 16, 2011 12:47 AM (QgI7g) Sounds like the dropped back ten and punted.

345 359 Did your horse accept the halter, Gushka, or did you have to go with the blouse instead?

Posted by: andycanuck at April 16, 2011 12:49 AM (Y1DZt)

no halter yet. tomorrow we are gonna push hard i had a migraine today. right now i am HELLA DRUGGED!!!

346 Did your horse accept the halter, Gushka, or did you have to go with the blouse instead? She had a cute little bandeau top lined up as a back up.

347 I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me?

Posted by: paladin

Yeah, that version was actually pretty faithful to the story.

 The one at the theater with Kyle Maclachlan was pretty terrible. Sting?  Jose Ferrer as the Emperor? Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck was actually pretty good, but the that movie was a stinker. And they spent a fortune on it, too.

348  
#342, I've found that problem at lots of sites, too many jagoffs posting to have or follow a good conversation with anybody.  I almost never read the comments at sites like Breitbart's or other conservatives I follow on Twitter because of that.  I make an exception when I know it's a subject the prog trolls are going to be losing it over, such as the 2010 elections and the latest in WI.  

349

I think that the people who will hate the movie 1) weren't going to like it anyway because of their politics, or 2) think the book is better than it really is and because of that think the movie suffers by comparison.

Those latter people should go watch what Hollywood and Gary Cooper did to The Fountainhead and maybe they'll feel a little better.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at April 16, 2011 12:02 AM (7EV/g)

I never read The Fountainhead, but from reading Atlas Shrugged I figured the movie was probably a fairly lame adaptation of the book. I didn't find the movie all that bad -- but it only weakly portrayed Rand's philosophy.

I skipped hundreds of pages of Atlas Shrugged and thoroughly enjoyed the book. One half of one of the hundred or so of her 25 page philosophical rants is all you really need to read. Her economic philosophy is great but I found her her hatred of religion and ideas about sexual relations bizarre and distracting.

350 She had a cute little bandeau top lined up as a back up.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 12:50 AM (ExD1J)

I still want to know what else was in that knife drawer...

351 356 349 It's like "Dune." You just can't make a real movie of it.

I thought the SiFi channel did the books justice...I own the DVD's, and love them...just me?

Posted by: paladin at April 16, 2011 12:45 AM (nmc9V)

A damn sight better than Verhoeven's garbage.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 16, 2011 12:48 AM (QgI7g)

Eh... I mean De Laurentiis.

352

A damn sight better than Verhoeven's garbage.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 16, 2011 12:48 AM (QgI7g)

I think we know it is not possible to come back from the dead. Why?

Because if it was Heinlein would have risen from the grave to beat Verhoeven to death with his own arm.

353 I still want to know what else was in that knife drawer... Posted by: TexasJew You will have to attend Ette's Take the Mouse to find out.

354 Heh.  Just saw part of a commercial for paint where a guy buys candy and such to hide in plastic eggs for kids to hunt on Easter, along with a couple of cans of paint.  Turns out the kids are frustrated because they can't find any eggs because the guy's painted them camouflage.  Now that's just mean.

_{Why didn't I think of that myself when the kids were little?  }:-]>}

355 We do have some regular trolls though. They only get the boot when Ace is tired of their shzt.
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at April 16, 2011 12:43 AM

Ace sent me into the Phantom Zone along with General Zod

356 You will have to attend Ette's Take the Mouse to find out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 12:54 AM (ExD1J)

 

You're trying to seduce me with Disney drugs, I know...

357 The Dune miniseries was OK. Still fzcked up some important concepts, though.

I don't mind screwing up the special effects or having to cut scenes to get it all in. I just hate when they decide some major concept or major character gets the axe.

(Removing Bombadil from LOTR was excusable, especially since they tried to include some key phrases and stuff from that section of the book.)

358 Because if it was Heinlein would have risen from the grave to beat Verhoeven to death with his own arm.

Yeah.  The only thing that movie had in common with the book was the title.

359 367 She had a cute little bandeau top lined up as a back up.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 12:50 AM (ExD1J)

I still want to know what else was in that knife drawer...

Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 12:51 AM (gdGPK)

(wicked evil grin)

wouldnt you like to know?

suffice to say i keep the handcuffs, zip ties, and the telescoping club in a separate place, the rifle under my bed... but i have many interesting things in my drawers. I like to keep strange artifacts from many places.

360 You're trying to seduce me with Disney drugs, I know... Hey, they have booze in California Adventure. And you can walk around drinking it.

361 Because if it was Heinlein would have risen from the grave to beat Verhoeven to death with his own arm.

Posted by: 18-1

Big Bob sometimes made a little fun of his own writings in his later years, but he never messed with "Starship Troopers."  He always said that this book was the source of more mail than anyuthing else he ever wrote - good and bad (mail, that is).

I read where Verhoeven intentionally screwed it up because he hated the book himself.

362

The Natural was an enjoyable movie, but the book by Bernard Malamud absolutely sucked, even Malamud himself said he liked the movie better

Field of Dreams is a perfect example.

Posted by: Ben at April 15, 2011 11:43 PM


Showgirls couldn't have been adapted from a novel. No novel could be THAT bad and still get published

363 I didn't mind the Dune miniseries either. I even DVRed it.

And with that, goodnight, gentlefolk.

364

suffice to say i keep the handcuffs, zip ties, and the telescoping club in a separate place, the rifle under my bed... but i have many interesting things in my drawers. I like to keep strange artifacts from many places.

Posted by: Gushka at April 16, 2011 12:57 AM (93zw2)

This could be the beginningof a beautiful friendship..

365 370 I still want to know what else was in that knife drawer...
Posted by: TexasJew

You will have to attend Ette's Take the Mouse to find out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 12:54 AM (ExD1J)

she is a horrible tease. do not believe her.

i will NEVER tell!!!!!

366 suffice to say i keep the handcuffs, zip ties, and the telescoping club in a separate place Wait. i thought you kept the fuzzy and non fuzzy handcuffs in separate drawers. so there are no accidents in the dark.

367 Ace sent me into the Phantom Zone along with General Zod

Posted by: palin steele from the phantom zone at April 16, 2011 12:55 AM (vdfwz)

Heh.

Reminds me, the Chrisopher Reeve Superman movies were on recently. Man did they suck.  The Phantom zone from the comic books was way better.  And that Crystal crap Fortress of Solitude was awful.

Also that chick who played Lois Lane killed my libido for a week.

368 I keep the non fuzzy handcuffs in a separate room. Those arent fuzzy handcuffs they are PADDED restraints. Big diff ...for those wake up on the wrong side of the bed days....

369
Is it me, or does anyone else find the format at HA and MM's site involves too damned much clicking-your-ass-off to find nothing?
Yeah. It bothers me that the headlines now have a URL (when you hover your mouse pointer over the link to read where it's from or its original title/name) of their own making so you have to open the link to see what it's about. Before you could hover over the link to see what a headline with a link title of "Dude!" went to a Daily Mail article titled "woman-catches-boobs-in-escalator" to judge whether it was worth your time. Now you get nothing but their made up link name that leads to their page about it. Cheap device to hit whore.

Firefox has an add-on called "find the real URL" that takes care that. The real URL displays in the gray bar at the bottom of the page just like any other link.

I don't know, however, if it's compatible with Firefox 4.0.

It's a great add-on though, because it even works with non-TinyUrl mini links. You highlight the link, right click "find the real url" and the link appears in the gray bar at the bottom of the page.

370

Also that chick who played Lois Lane killed my libido for a week.

Posted by: K~Bob at April 16, 2011 01:00 AM (L6o2V)

I remember when Margot Kidder was quite hot, before she became a homeless person and lost most of her teeth.

371 she is a horrible tease. do not believe her. i will NEVER tell!!!!! Stop that DAMMIT!!!!! we could have got him to drink too much and do things that would make us laugh hysterically while we photographed/videoed him for later blackmail. You spoil all my fun!!!!!!

372 388 she is a horrible tease. do not believe her. i will NEVER tell!!!!!

Stop that DAMMIT!!!!! we could have got him to drink too much and do things that would make us laugh hysterically while we photographed/videoed him for later blackmail. You spoil all my fun!!!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:02 AM (ExD1J)

Just as long as you send me the DVD..

373 Showgirls couldn't have been adapted from a novel. No novel could be THAT bad and still get published Posted by: kbdabear at April 16, 2011 12:58 AM (vdfwz) I remember leaving the theater and feeling like I had just been electrocuted. Everybody was just stunned. The pulse of intense stupid from that movie is now many light-years away. Once it reaches the worlds of the Galactic Empire we will be judged a menace to all life and be quarantined or exterminated.

374 I'LL BUY

375 I really liked HA when it featured MM's videos. That was back before all the blogs who could afford it went video happy.

Who has time to watch or listen to real-time media? Just give me the link to the article, with words I can speed read.

But an occasional vid, with MM was cool.

376 What's to dissect, just a forbidden love story.  A girl trying to seduce a priest.  

YEA...a girl with a Major Rack!!!!eleventy!!!

377

Just as long as you send me the DVD..

Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 01:04 AM (gdGPK)

lolol thats sooo not my deal.

i never do anything on tape or in video. ever.

thats evidence.

378 Also that chick who played Lois Lane killed my libido for a week.

Margot Kidder the nut?

379 OK gotta get some code written and numbers crunchified. Catch y'all later.

380 i never do anything on tape or in video. ever. He was going to be on tape, NOT US. Well, our laughter. But its hard to id us based on that alone.

381 So catch me up, pls......

Consensus on A Shrugs?? Are people saying skip it?

382 Consensus on A Shrugs?? Are people saying skip it? Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:08 AM (4yixj) I recall Ben hated it and chemjeff was a bit meh.

383 397 i never do anything on tape or in video. ever.

He was going to be on tape, NOT US. Well, our laughter. But its hard to id us based on that alone.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:07 AM (ExD1J)

i laugh?

oh yeah the evil cackle. i remember now. thats what you call it... "laughter."

(do not start a running joke with a drugged gushka)

384 397 i never do anything on tape or in video. ever.

He was going to be on tape, NOT US. Well, our laughter. But its hard to id us based on that alone.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:07 AM (ExD1J)

Sounds quite a bit more entertaining than Thunder Mountain..

385 AtlasS report from Madison, Wi - 9:50pm showing.

Only about 2 dozen people there, and this is the ONLY theater in town showing it. Oh well. Palin and Breitbart are here tomorrow, so the whole town is probably focused on that.

I liked the movie. Casting was superb. Dagney was spot on. Jolie would have been wrong for the part.

Would love to see parts 2 and 3.

I would not advise anyone to see the move, if they are not familiar with the book.  Wait for DVD and watch it at home.

I mostly went to support the film makers.

386

i laugh?

oh yeah the evil cackle. i remember now. thats what you call it... "laughter."

(do not start a running joke with a drugged gushka)

Posted by: Gushka at April 16, 2011 01:09 AM (93zw2)

I've heard you laugh. It's not a cackle..

 

387 399
Consensus on A Shrugs?? Are people saying skip it?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:08 AM (4yixj)

I recall Ben hated it and chemjeff was a bit meh. Posted by: eman: Japanese Babe Rescue Team at April 16, 2011 01:09 AM

The page with Ace's review might take longer to load than Banhammer

388

I've heard you laugh. It's not a cackle..

 

Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 01:11 AM (gdGPK)

389 oh yeah the evil cackle. i remember now. thats what you call it... "laughter." ooo, a drunken/drugged evil cackle contest, innnnnn....... wait for it............THE HAUNTED MANSION!!!!!!!!MUUUAAAHHHAHAHAH

390 Jennifer Aniston would have really saved thaat movie...

391 Stop that DAMMIT!!!!! we could have got him to drink too much and do things that would make us laugh hysterically while we photographed/videoed him for later blackmail. You spoil all my fun!!!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:02 AM (ExD1J)

Hmmm.  This might be important to know.

392 Tarantino should have made Atlas Shrugged.

393 I read where Verhoeven intentionally screwed it up because he hated the book himself.

The book was optioned after the movie had started filming.  Verehoeven never even finished it, he knew going in he was going to make an anti-military film and they just grabbed the novel for the name to drive some commercial success.

394 ooo, a drunken/drugged evil cackle contest, innnnnn....... wait for it............THE HAUNTED MANSION!!!!!!!!MUUUAAAHHHAHAHAH

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:12 AM (ExD1J)

"Your ghost host".. bwahhahahah

395 oh hell i am tired and not lookin forward to tomorrow.
anyone else want to put some restraint on a big pretty scared horse so we can (painfully) doctor it?

if i was a drinkin girl, i would be drinkin.

396 CDR M, I'll find it.  I also believe I majorly ripped on him a year ago here on AOSHQ over the whole Journolist matter, hence the handle.

397 Know what the call Rearden Metal in Paris?

398 Ed, actually interviewed David Weigel and I think also tried to have a kid with him over at HA.

399 Hmmm. This might be important to know. Posted by: NC Ref heh Nc, you're from the hood, you;re safe. besides, you know where i live.

400

Just thought since some are commenting about HA that you might like to know the latest from Allahpoot.   This was in response from the nutzoid ex-editor of Newsweek pontificating about changing the Constitution to remove the natural born citizen clause re the presidency...

The effer, Allahpoot, actually wrote this in his remarks.

I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: ItÂ’s one of the most antiquated and unnecessary parts of the Constitution, especially in light of the original intent he describes.

Yeah, HA and the head idiots suck. 

401 Looks like my mid-June social calender may be looking up...

402 Atlas Shrugged was good, eh?

403 I didn't say I was scared 

404 DRIVE BY SHOOTING

405 420 I didn't say I was scared 

Posted by: NC Ref at April 16, 2011 01:18 AM (/izg2)

Look, they're tying and humiliating me. I liked them first..

406 Looks like my mid-June social calender may be looking up... Posted by: TexasJew Gushie, get the leather restraints and the ball gag ready!!!! i'll charge the video cam!

407 Gushie, get the leather restraints and the ball gag ready!!!! i'll charge the video cam!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:20 AM (ExD1J)

You certainly know how to touch a fella's heart..

408

hola rethugican'ts

for the geeks (you starbucks latte sipping mac users...don't click on the link) AVENGER is just a little more than 3 days away

http://tinyurl.com/3h6pz67

409 I just got back from Atlas Shrugged. I thought it was great, but I havenÂ’t read the book. (I have read The Fountainhead, and enjoyed it.) The actors and their dialogue were all very natural and well-delivered; except for the Mysterious Guy who I assume is John Galt, but he only showed up a couple of times for a few seconds each. His dialogue could have been a lot smoother without changing its meaning. Unless itÂ’s important that he talks like that, in which case theyÂ’d better work on the delivery for the next movie. Oh, and it was a small theater at the AMC 20 in Mission Valley here in San Diego, but full. Then again, everythingÂ’s full at the Mission Valley AMC on a Friday night.

410

^{The effer, Allahpoot, actually wrote this in his remarks.}

I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: ItÂ’s one of the most antiquated and unnecessary parts of the Constitution, especially in light of the original intent he describes.

 

AllahP is a fucking idiot who should be working a Gloryhole on an Interstate somewhere.

411

Posted by: Steph at April 16, 2011 01:17 AM (AkdC5)

< Steph, thanks for posting this. I see a nice intramural kerfuffle coming with HA. 

 

412

Oh, this is going to be fun skewering HA.

Question. Can I still be buddies with Hugh Hewitt if I piss on HA?  Does Salem network roll tight with HA?  hee , hee.

 

413 Can I still be buddies with Hugh Hewitt if I piss on HA? Only if it benefits you know who.

414 Let me go over and post something on HA...

415 Nite nite kids

416 432  gnight boobs

417

< Steph, thanks for posting this. I see a nice intramural kerfuffle coming with HA. 

 Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 01:25 AM (iHfo1)

It just floored me.   I Only go there every now and then when it's late at night, Im bored, and there's nothing else to do.   In the comments people were challenging his statement, and he drops into the comments and instead of explaing why he thinks that he says, " If you have an argument for why it should be retained, make it."

The guy is an effen puss and a waste of damn skin.  

418 Wow. And with that beeb goes to bed, leaving me holding the...gag? Well, now my reputations in tatters!

419

Steph, do you think AP is just playing with us or should we indeed be taking him seriously?

420

Hi all,

The movie was great and had a fun evening with some of the Seattle morons.

421 Not good postin' but it was so dull over there, like an optometrist convention..

422 robtr didn't drink nearly enough.  I had to drink for like, 5 people.

423 what are you talkin about, I had 3 gin and tonics while you sipped your sake?

424 432 Nite nite kids

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 16, 2011 01:30 AM (ExD1J)

Good night, bebe. I happily await your Official  "'Ette" sanctioned ball gag...

425 Uh, I had 2 tall bottles of sake before you ever showed up.  That's no joke.  Was on the third by the time you were there, then had 3-beers.  Keep up!

426

Good night, bebe. I happily await your Official  "'Ette" sanctioned ball gag...

Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 01:37 AM (gdGPK)

heh, wtf?

427 435 Wow. And with that beeb goes to bed, leaving me holding the...gag?

Well, now my reputations in tatters!

Posted by: gushka at April 16, 2011 01:33 AM (4YQ1e)

Well, it's just you and me and the furry handcuffs, kiddo.

Anything good on PBS? 

428

 " If you have an argument for why it should be retained, make it."

Barack Obama.

429 OK, should I light up AP or not?  He's pissing me off.

430
The Atlas Shrugged comments here remind me of the recent argument we had here over The Stand mini-series.

Both books were way too long which made editing a nightmare. I liked The Stand mini-series even though it took some great liberties. It had a bit too much hippie shit in it but the book was written by a lefty and the series was made when hippies were more commonplace. I felt it captured the essence of the book fairly well and that's about all you can ask for from any kind of movie or series. I'll have to see Atlas Shrugged to see if I can draw the same conclusion.

Anybody read Lucifer's Hammer? I thought it was a great book at first but as it went on it changed from a theme of regular law and order types fighting bandits to promoting a communal (virtually a communist) system as necessary for survival.

Apocalyptic books are fun to read but every one I've read had some points that I strongly disagreed with.

431 446 OK, should I light up AP or not?  He's pissing me off.

Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 01:41 AM (iHfo1)

Which thread?

432

442  Was on the third by the time you were there, then had 3-beers.

damn, my ass would be out after that

433

Steph, do you think AP is just playing with us or should we indeed be taking him seriously?

Posted by: journolist-drinking large at April 16, 2011 01:34 AM (iHfo1)

It was a hell of a thing to say.   Is he that fucking stupid to make a remark like that, and then expect his commenters to not have shit fits about it?   Does he give a damn about whateverthefuck his reputation is?   If he did it for shits and giggles, it was a major freakin' flop.

434 TexasJ, the comments AP made agreeing with Meecham.

435

damn, my ass would be out after that

Posted by: navycopjoe aka peroni beer czar at April 16, 2011 01:42 AM (EOu3d)

I drove home.  Suck it.

436

Which thread?

Posted by: TexasJew at April 16, 2011 01:41 AM (gdGPK)

It's the Jon Meacham thread.

437 That reminds me, I should drink some water.

438 Re: MONKEY BRAINS

Please, people. Never, never, NEVER eat the brains, spinal or nerve tissue of ANY mammal. That is how "mad cow disease" and its equivalents in other species (i.e., transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs) are spread. You DON'T want to risk getting Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (the human version of mad cow disease) -- absolutely one of the most horrible ways to die.
Read Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes.
http://tinyurl.com/3rktqmj

439

I drove home.  Suck it.

 

The. Fuck!  

I wouldn't be able to drive for half a day after that...that's if I could wake up that soon. 

_{This is why I don't drink.}

440  If you have an argument for why it should be retained, make it."

The guy is an effen puss and a waste of damn skin.  

Posted by: Steph at April 16, 2011 01:32 AM (AkdC5)

Hmmm I dunno, maybe because it's worked for 235 years and we're selfish like that.

441 Please, people. Never, never, NEVER eat the brains, spinal or nerve tissue of ANY mammal. That is how "mad cow disease" and its equivalents in other species (i.e., transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs) are spread. You DON'T want to risk getting Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (the human version of mad cow disease) -- absolutely one of the most horrible ways to die.
Read Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes.
http://tinyurl.com/3rktqmj

Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at April 16, 2011 01:47 AM (2AfqM)

Well, there goes my Honey Badger taquitos..

442 didn't Hot Air  rip on whathisface (1:50 in the am and struggling here). that little shitstain that writes for WaPo that said, 'the Constitution is like old and stuff'. oh lord why can't I remember his name.......??

anyway, HA, like *all* blogs tore that guy a new one.

and now AP is making the exact same argument.

443 damnitfuck!

I knew the second I hit send I'd think of it - Ezra Klein

444

oh lord why can't I remember his name.......??

Better than Ezra?

445

The. Fuck!  

I wouldn't be able to drive for half a day after that...that's if I could wake up that soon. 

_{This is why I don't drink.}

Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 01:47 AM (p0R89)

He had a 2 hour break between drinking and driving

446 Whoa - lacey's up late, tonight.  Sup?

447 All kidding aside, robtr, I hope you enjoyed yourself and won't be scared away from future meet-ups.  It was good to finally get you out.

448 <sup>Please, people. Never, never, NEVER eat the brains, spinal or nerve tissue of ANY mammal. That is how "mad cow disease" and its equivalents in other species (i.e., transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs) are spread. You DON'T want to risk getting Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (the human version of mad cow disease) -- absolutely one of the most horrible ways to die.
Read Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes.
http://tinyurl.com/3rktqmj

Posted by: Kathy from Kansas</sup>

Not even a little bit on a cracker?

449 and now AP is making the exact same argument.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:48 AM (4yixj)

You know if Germany would have had that little rule in their constitution they wouldn't have had a guy by the name of alolf runnin the country.

450 Whoa - lacey's up late, tonight.  Sup?

Nada. We don't need to have a talk about D&D do we, Papa??

451

You know if Germany would have had that little rule in their constitution they wouldn't have had a guy by the name of alolf runnin the country.

Posted by: robtr at April 16, 2011 01:53 AM (MtwBb)

He would have changed his name to Ezra Klein..

452 and now AP is making the exact same argument.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:48 AM (4yixj)

The worse part of it was he dropped his little bomb, and when he was asked to defend his BS, he dropped into the comments and basically said he didn't have to.   That people should explain why that clause in the Constitution shouldn't be changed.

He needs to just go play with CJ.

453 All kidding aside, robtr, I hope you enjoyed yourself and won't be scared away from future meet-ups.  It was good to finally get you out.

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 16, 2011 01:51 AM (YX6i/)

Had a great time. We will have to do it again when you get settled in the new house.

454 Hell no.  I'm not a nerd.  I've never once played Dungeons and Dragons.

455

You know if Germany would have had that little rule in their constitution they wouldn't have had a guy by the name of alolf runnin the country.

Posted by: robtr at April 16, 2011 01:53 AM (MtwBb)

 

He shoots, he scores....

456 I know they don't have open registration over at HA.

I wonder if I could email AP directly and say, "can I register for your site? I want to publicly call you a putz."

Think that will fly? He's pretty Beta. I could steamroll him.

457

I figured it out...it came to me like a fart in the wind.

I am going to write a signing statement and not pay my taxes...if it works for Obumbles, it ought to work for me!

458 473 I know they don't have open registration over at HA.

I wonder if I could email AP directly and say, "can I register for your site? I want to publicly call you a putz."

Think that will fly? He's pretty Beta. I could steamroll him.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:55 AM (4yixj)

You can go post as me.. I've been over there forever and it sucks.

 

459 It's too bad that AP's best stuff was on Allah Is In The House -- which has subsumed into the ooze of internet history. He's done ok since at HA, but his old stuff was wicked. I suspect that getting sued could have had something to do with taking the edge off.

In the meantime, he's been living in that bubble of artificial unreality known as NYC and, like the head Ewok here, sometimes forgets the reality outside the five boroughs. Further, he doesn't do enough Val-u-rite or hobo hunts to keep himself mellow, so Allah sometimes pops off like a NY lib because "everybody reacts like that". [Fortunately, our glorious leader doesn't -- Ace merely (double) posts five-page "think pieces" on the relationship between the current zeitgeist and some weirdly insane motherfucker's odd personality quirks, as illuminated by the Drive-By Media's writings about someone or something else entirely. That's why we love him so.]

AP also tosses around rhetorical bombs frequently, just as comment-bait. It's part of the gig.

460 Shot in the Arm

461 I wonder if I could email AP directly and say, "can I register for your site?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 01:55 AM (4yixj)

That's how I originally got my registration.  It's cause he was cool at Allah's In the House.  I don't know the current guy going as Allah.

462

I've never had any interest in commenting on that site.   The only times I can stomach it is late at night half drunk or if I'm bored as hell.

Assholes that are supposedly on our side making statements like that should be bitch-slapped.   And, if he did it just to drive comments, it's even worse.

463 I probably still have the original email from Allah "warning me" not to say the wrong thing when he gave me the registration.

464

That's how I originally got my registration.  It's cause he was cool at Allah's In the House.  I don't know the current guy going as Allah.

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 16, 2011 01:58 AM (YX6i/)

I posted one of Allah's best photoshops from AiTH on the Ace Yahoo site: the one of John Kerry at the top of the World Trade Center

I loved it and posted my ass off there..

465
So Gushka -- what kind of meds are you taking?

My sister and a friend have terrible migraines  occasionally. Maybe I could find something that would help them better.

466 AllahP is to AoS (and apparently HA) readers what The Ref is to Kobe Bryant.

Just sayin'

467 I think they conveyed Dagny's cool attitude, without really showing how totally unfeeling she is about some things. The State Science Institute, is much like the purveyors of Global Warming, or the Interior department hacks which cooked
the books for the moratorium, They really did capture how wretched Lillian is,
with the casting, They didn't go into the blackmail scheme, that cost Rearden his company, but maybe that's with the next film.

468 C'mon guys, cut the AP some slack. Have none of you ever said, "hey, guys, watch this", started doing something, and halfway through thought, "hey, wait -- that's just stupid!"?

If you haven't, it goes something like this....can someone hold my beer while I show 'em?

469 ^{Updated: Thread title revised since it appears some of you actually pried yourselves off the couch you sleep on in your parents' basement, brushed/licked off the Cheetos residue from your fingers and briefly emerged into the outside world to watch a talkie. I know how hard it was for you to do that (well, actually I don't) but now you're back home, in your haven, far from the mocking of the cruel "Outside People" or whatever you call them.}

Thanks Genghis. Actually, the Cheetos residue is on the seat of our underwear and on the crotch.

Here is a primer on the AoSHQ lifestyle, NSFW.

470 There's a word for describing AllahP... but Ace gets upset when we use it.

471 Okay, so, I thought the film was much better than I expected... but that's not saying much.  I am looking forward to Part II.  Was it low budget?  Yes, but they did very well for a low budget.  There will be much consternation about the lead Dagny.  So be it - there was much consternation about Ayn herself. 

472 C'mon guys, cut the AP some slack. Have none of you ever said, "hey, guys, watch this", started doing something, and halfway through thought, "hey, wait -- that's just stupid!"?

If you haven't, it goes something like this....can someone hold my beer while I show 'em?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2011 02:04 AM (kaalw)

Nah, not something like agreeing with a liberal douche like meecham. To many warning bells go off to ever carry through with actually doing it.

473 Premenstrual?

474 Allahpundit regularly posts "stir up the shit" comments to keep the post count high.

And it works.

That was the entire purpose of the "red meat" comments that used to be more common - they're just not labeled now.

475
Please, people. Never, never, NEVER eat the brains, spinal or nerve tissue of ANY mammal.

Squirrel brains are great cooked up in a popcorn popper.

476 So be it - there was much consternation about Ayn herself. 

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 16, 2011 02:06 AM (YX6i/)

The high speed train made the whole movie!

477 Hot Air does seem to be slipping. Their headlines used to be the first place i saw a lot of stories, but now i've usually seen the headline items a day or two, sometimes three days before Hot Air posts it.

478 C'mon guys, cut the AP some slack. Have none of you ever said, "hey, guys, watch this", started doing something, and halfway through thought, "hey, wait -- that's just stupid!"?

If you haven't, it goes something like this....can someone hold my beer while I show 'em?

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2011 02:04 AM (kaalw)

If that's what it was, he wouldn't have jumped into the comments and doubled down.  

479 487 There's a word for describing AllahP... but Ace gets upset when we use it.

Posted by: garrett at April 16, 2011 02:05 AM (p0R89)

Ace banned "oppositional-defiant milquetoast?"

480 Their headlines used to be the first place i saw a lot of stories, but now i've usually seen the headline items a day or two, sometimes three days before Hot Air posts it.

Posted by: booger at April 16, 2011 02:10 AM (9RFH1)

HA is the new AoSHQ, but without the naughty words?

481 That was the entire purpose of the "red meat" comments that used to be more common - they're just not labeled now.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 16, 2011 02:09 AM (bxiXv)

If that's what his comment was, then he's an even bigger douche than I thought.  

482

The high speed train made the whole movie!

Posted by: robtr at April 16, 2011 02:10 AM (MtwBb)

Hey - thanks, pal!

483 It's safe to eat the brains, but only if you fuck them out.

484 For a Friday ONT, this place is dead.

I picked the wrong time to get on the wagon.

485 The movie was good. I read the book 20 years ago and it's scary how much our government is trying to match the fictional one in the book these days.

486 This place is deader than my dick after seeing Michelle Obama digging potatoes in the Whitehouse garden

487 "...Michelle Obama digging potatoes in the Whitehouse garden."

Didn't someone mention muscleglutes earlier? Was that what he/she was referring to?

488

I was thinking about GM and Chrysler getting bailed out and right after Toyota getting hammered by our government for a break problem they never had. Then GE makes $14 Billion and doesn't pay taxes at the same time they are promoting Obama on their TV network and leading  his green energy BS.

Things are changing for the worse.

489 I'm just sayin'....AP is in an environment where there's probably only a couple dozen people to the right of Karl Marx in the whole damned city -- and one is Donald Trump. He goes to the grocery -- leftie chatter; he goes to the Starbucks -- more lefties; he goes to get the stains out at the laundromat -- lefties again; he rubs up on some folks in the subway....you can bet they've never heard of Goldwater.

And he's got to move among them.....jaywalk when they do, surge into the tin cans underground when they surge, mill around aimlessly harassing tourists, stand in line for a slice of 'za.....it's got to get so bad over years that when he hears a "BANG!", he probably yips, "gun control!" -- 'cause that's the reflex he's gotta have there to avoid getting trampled.

After posting, he probably sat back and said, "y'know, that looks a helluva lot like Ezra Klein...." But after the first hundred comments ring on, he probably thought, "Spin that hitcounter, bitchez! I'm gettin' a bonus this quarter.....even if it is weak."

490 haha, okay this is good. I'm reading an opinion about sexual harassment and I come across this appendix at the end of the opinion....I hope this copies/pastes okay. and I certainly hope I don't break the blog!

ATTACHMENT # 1

TO: All Employees

FROM: Management

DATE: October 10, 1994

SUBJECT: Offensive Language on the job

It has been brought to management's attention that some individuals have been using offensive language in the course of normal conversation between co-workers. Due to complaints from some of the most easily offended co-workers, this conduct will no longer be tolerated.

Management does, however, realize the importance of each person being able to properly express the feelings when communicating with their fellow co-workers. Because of this, management has recruited a team of individuals to compile a list of code phrases, so that the free and proper exchange of ideas and information can continue.

Old PhrasesNew PhrasesNo fucking wayI'm not certain that's feasibleYou've got to be shitting meReally?Tell someone who gives a fuckPerhaps you should check withÂ…Ask me if I give a fuckOf course I'm concernedIt's not my fucking problemI wasn't involved in that projectWhat the fuck?Interesting behaviorFuck it, it won't workI'm not sure I can implement thisWhy the fuck didn't you tell me soonerI'll try to schedule thatWhen the fuck do you expect me to do thisPerhaps I can work lateWho the fuck caresAre you sure it's a problemHe's got his head up his assHe's not familiar with the problemEat ShitYou don't sayEat shit and dieExcuse meEat shit and die motherfuckerExcuse me, sirWhat the fuck do they want from my lifeThey weren't happy with itKiss my assSo you'd like my help with itFuck it, I'm on salaryI'm a bit over dedicated at the momentShove it up your assI don't think you understandThis job sucksI love a challengeWho the hell died and made you bossYou want me to take care of thisBlow meI seeBlow yourselfDo you seeAnother fucking meetingYes, we should discuss thisI really don't give a shitI don't think it will be a problemFuck youHow nice, how very very niceGet the fuck out of my officeHave a nice dayOh fuck, what you want now dipshitWhat can I do for you, palI don't give a fuckI can't be concerned by that at this timeAssholeBuddyWhat asshole thought up this fucking ideaGood idea, we should implement this immediately 

491 oh poop! it was in a chart so it didn't format correctly.

so now it's utter jibberish. don't even bother trying to read it  - it will give you a headache.

basically it was a memo to these employees suggesting artful ways in which they could engage their co-workers.

so rather than saying, 'eat shit', they'd prefer you say, 'you don't say!'

anyway, this really didn't need to be included in the opinion but apparently the Judge wanted to put it in for shits & giggles

492

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 16, 2011 02:28 AM (4yixj)

You like Pancakes?

493 You like Pancakes?

Rachel Corrie does.

494 You like Pancakes?

Make it French Toast and you might have a deal.

Hi, lilmissrum!!

495 Rachel Corrie does.

Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom & Sith Apprentice at April 16, 2011 02:40 AM (YxBuk)

I haven't decided what the Sith equivalent to "brownie points" should be called, but you just got one.

496 You rang?

497 Hi, lacey!

498 I haven't decided what the Sith equivalent to "brownie points" should be called, but you just got one.

It was too easy. I'm surprised no one else snapped up and grabbed it.

Of course, it is pretty dead 'round these parts tonight...

499 hi

500

501 Lacy, 6 years ago at my last job I saw something very similar to that, and I and a few of my coworkers had a blast using some of the phrases on our dipshit manager.  She was always bringing us work that needed to be done when we were up to our eyeballs in work already and we'd say, "I'll get right on that" which was code for "You can't fool me, bitch, this shit's been sitting on your desk for 3 days, as usual, and you just came across it in that clusterfuck you call your office."  We used to wonder if she ever realized when she came to us with work why she always heard snickering coming from the adjoining cubicles. 

502 502 The movie was good. I read the book 20 years ago and it's scary how much our government is trying to match the fictional one in the book these days.

Alas, there's no "Galt's Gultch" to retreat to.  At least none that I know of...

503 One of The Bosses liked the phrase "It's a new day!"

I used to tell people it was an acronym, it stood for Nothing Ever Works.

504 Pancakes?  Yeah, this thread is kinda flat...

/Rachael Corrie - now there's a prime example of a modern-day "useful idiot".

505 I had a fuddy-duddy midwestern manager once, a long time ago. Her rep was no fun, nothing fancy, and she kind of had a scared rabbit thing going on (that was frustrating to me as a kind-of-sort-of department lead).

Had drinks with her once (official function, too, no alcohol allowed ha ha), and afterward she told me all those expression, goodness, heavens-to-Betsy, they were all code words for cuss words.

506 6 years ago at my last job I saw something very similar to tha

did they actually write up the memo??

507 Geeze, every other word out of our owner's mouth is "fuck".  He's a bad influence on me.

508

Posted by: Papa Editor at April 16, 2011 02:57 AM (YX6i/)

The F-bomb is such a versatile word.

509 Well I liked the movie just fine except for 512 minor things, which I will document one at a time over the next few weeks. Watch this space.

For those who think an 1100 page novel cannot be made into a movie, please note that Part 1 ends on page 339.  Film can handle 339.

For those who cannot gag down the ending, please turn to page 339. Except for the answering  machine, pretty obviously there only to foreshadow the term "On Strike" in the next part, it is word-for-word.

Complaints? I've had a few. No Richard Halley concerto; I'm so convinced the morons would have loved that, highbrows as they are.
She never even ordered the goddamn "hamburger sandwich."
No gritty, diesel-smelling sex in the locomotive passageway. Hmm.

Worst innovation in plot device: given a sudden, near-total shortage of oil, diesel long-haul passenger trains would still not be more efficient than jetliners. Not an issue when the book was written. This proves that Joe Biden will show up in the next installment.

I saw it in a medium-size stadium pit in a stylish Centre, just outside the most passively-leftist county in Ohio. Half an hour early, I had the usual bitter giggle at the sparse house.  Then the strangest thing happened: the sonofabitch filled up, almost to standing room, and the audience oohed, aahed, laughed, gasped, and then stood the hell up and applauded at the end. The Monday morning box office reports could be very interesting.

510 It would appear that AS is possible epic love/hate material.

Like me!

511 Thread's dead, baby.

512 529 Thread's dead, baby.

Don't Sith have the power to create life? 

/Sorry, I got nuthin'. Not even many foolish comments.

513 See y'all sometime tomorrow AM.

514 "Have I lied to you? [pause] I mean, in this room? Trust me, leave that thing alone."

515 188 "the moral of the story is, To the vector go the spoils."
______

What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?

Nothing. You can't cross a vector and a scalar.

516 Just got back from Atlas Shrugged. I am underwhelmed, but not nearly as down on it as some of the comments here. My GF hasn't read the book yet, despite my endless badgering, and she really liked it, so there's an impartial review for you. For my take: Overall: The low budget showed, particularly in the sets and overall production, but mostly IMO because we're spoiled with enormous budget movies these days. Compared to movies 10 or 20 years ago, it's actually quite good... with the exception of Rearden's office and the logo. The Good: I think they did a good job of adapting it to a modern setting, much better than I expected it to be. There were also a lot of nice, subtle things- like NY with empty sidewalks and storefronts- that set the right tone without being overbearing. I thought the actors playing Rearden and Dagny were good. No academy awards and the writing was poor in some areas, but they made the most out of it. Like every movie adapt from a book, there was a lot cut out, but I thought that this was done better than most. The only film adaptation that I have enjoyed as much as the book was The Green Mile. This is not The Green Mile, but it isn't The Stand or Pet Cemetery either. Putting aside the exceptions, there were several very enjoyable scenes, particularly when we're introduced to Mrs. Rearden, Dagney's takedown of the union rep, and the GF and I got a nice chuckle out of Hank and the Mrs. hanky panky scene. The Bad: Whoever cast Jim Taggert needs to be shot. He was awful. Frisco was going to be an extremely fought role to cast... and they failed worse than expected. Then there were the WTF scenes that, as others mentioned, make no sense, particularly at the Science Institute and the Diner with Hugh Akston (also a poor casting choice). Some of the worst writing I have ever seen on film in these scenes. They screwed up on the John Galt mystery as a whole and giving away the store-very poorly- in particular. John Galt, the person, had no business being in this movie. Part II lost it's Empire Strikes Back moment for the uninitiated for no reason other than the directors need to cast himself in a role he would never have gotten otherwise. Last, but not least, was Dagny's Darth Vader impression. I went into it with very low expectations and left enjoying it. No, it wasn't great and could easily have been much better for the same budget if simple common sense was used, but it was okay. Bonus points to the filmmakers because the GF got all the points and enjoyed it more than I did; her not having read the book. Go see it, despite it's flaws. If you go in with low expectations, perhaps you'll enjoy it like I did. If not, then at least you'll have supported the potential for the rest of the movie to make it to the screen... hopefully with a new writer and a better budget.

517 I had the pleasure to meet up w/morons from the eastside of Seattle to watch the movie tonight. First: thanks Andrewsdad for organizing the meet up. 2nd: I enjoyed the movie. It's diff to take such a book & translate it to the big screen. Just glad Hollyweird didn't get their hands on it & totally destroy the story.

518 Just glad Hollyweird didn't get their hands on it & totally destroy the story.

Posted by: DCG at April 16, 2011 04:11 AM (vOhvb)

There is some deep truth here. Had Hollywood gotten its hooks in, it would have been a coming-of-age movie where Reardon discovered his true sexual identity in Jim Taggart's bed, until CGI robots turned the railroads into "green energy" wind farms.

519 Stopped by to read a few.

These HA comments are funny. Shows how recently I tried to post at HA. When did they require registration? Never mind, the site sucks so bad I can't care much.

Making excuses for AP reminds me of all the folks making excuses for Trump giving money to the Dems.  So much for business acumen. Nobody forced Trump to keep his main interests in New York. He's had plenty of time to shift to a more favorable business climate, and not kowtow to the people with whom he claims he's in such staunch opposition.

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521 Making excuses for AP reminds me of all the folks making excuses for Trump giving money to the Dems.

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Honduras for pleasure. When we deplaned in San Pedro Sula, we went into a large room with a low counter across the middle and our luggage was offloaded into the other side, where there were several customs/immigration agents.

I watched as several people folded a bill into their palm and went to shake hands with an agent. Their luggage was immediately pulled forward, their passport stamped, and they went on their way. But there were only about 40 people, and we were the last incoming plane of the day -- so we sat tight.

Everyone eventually coughed up their mordida and left, except for half-a-dozen customs agents and the two of us, chatting comfortably about nothing in particular. After about five minutes, we were called up and interrogated about our visit and the dive equipment in our bags. Then our passports were stamped, we were given our luggage, and allowed to proceed.

Do I blame the other travelers for contributing to official corruption in Honduras? Nah. Do I make excuses? Nah. I could figure out how things were going, and was curious to see what a pleasant demeanor and no bribe would bring.....but I had the luxury of running the experiment.

Things are what they are.

522 @537...so true. The "rainbow push coalition" (cough cough) would approve of that...As would Al Blowhard..

523 Well, g'night all -- time to get caught up on that "dead, but dreaming" thing.

524 I'm rather surprised that Ace hasn't said anything about the jury in the Scott Ritter case finding him guilty on all but one charge.

525 Red Alert: Obama DOJ shuts down ALL online poker sites in USA. Read about it here: http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,1046.0.html

526 Obama DOJ shuts down ALL online poker sites in USA. Read about it here:
 
That sucks donkey dicks. Welcome to the police state. I've played at PokerStars; it is a well run site that controls cheating and is NOT a US company. They have (had) micro games there where you can literally play for pennies.
 
There once were several US based poker sites, but a similar DOJ crackdown forced them out of business or off-shore a few years ago. These current companies have lobbied Congress to change the law and have even offered to pay US taxes on earnings from US players.
 
You can pass out instructions on fisting to public school students using tax dollars but you cannot play poker online.
 
That's called having your priorities in order. Fuckers.

527 I'd like to see them reinstate the independent counsel statute and then appoint several to look into Eric Holder and his stint at the AG's office.

528 Can't wait to get home and spend all morning playing portal 2

529 Hmmm - online poker vs casino revenue, I wonder where Mr.Reid weighed in on the issue.  I thought I heard the Vegas casinos were about to enter the online gambling world?

530 It looks like about 5% of Americans play online poker.

531 Good day Sir!

532 Allah's smart, funny and writes well.  He's also blogging for a living and is apparently supposed to keep it both civil and interesting.  How many other bloggers are drawing a regular paycheck for what they do?

He's also a pessimist, an atheist and kind of a RINO.  Yes, that shit gets annoying sometimes, but hey, some people are just "small government, lower taxes, strong military" libertarian conservatives and don't have a hard-on for the social issues concerning gays, religion and abortion.  Hardly the end of the world.  I don't get the vitriol.

533 Wife and I are headed to the 12:45 show. We've both read the book but not since the Nineties. She's pretty apolitical, and I've prepared her with low expectations. I only skimmed the above reviews so as to avoid establishing any new biases. If it's tolerable for it's full duration, gives a decent account of the book and has a few memorable lines/scenes, I'll be satisfied. I noticed Fandango has it with a 25% Critic's score but a "greenlight" from fan reviews. To be expected. 

534 So I guess Atlas Shrugged Part III as a musical is out?  Sadly you've crushed all of  my expectations, because I was looking forward to getting my "gaga" on.

535 Husband and I saw Atlas Shrugged last night at the late show.  2/3 full, applause at the end.  I actually didn't think it screamed "low budget" but did wonder at some of the editing and script decisions.  Acting not great but the characters were pretty much as I pictured them.  The timing is downright eerie with world events, which perhaps might wake some people up, but I wished the point had been hammered home even more.

I'd read the book, husband hadn't.  We both liked it. 

Worth seeing, if only to support the effort.

536 That quote may have lost a little in translation. He meant to say "grand opera," not "musical."

Funny, when you turn a book into an opera, nobody seems to bitch about whether you left the long speeches in or not. Movie, whole 'nother story.

537 Posted by: I read both blogs at April 16, 2011 09:13 AM (vg/23)

Haven't read the whole thread or see the vitriol about this allah guy and I don't go to the site.  I've only really commented here and on the garden web and fashion sites.  I think the problem with this guy is that he does blog for a living so he is afraid of losing that paycheck and doesn't take risks.  If he took risks I would think he wouldn't be so quick to ban someone if he thinks their opinion doesn't coincide with what the site wants to convey.  I feel he doesn't care who you are or how long you've been on his site, he's willing to hurt your feelings and ban you because of that pay check.  People are very loyal to their blog sites.  I've been on the same fashion site since it started.  It becomes like a little family group.  I've been here since the day Mcshame picked sarah palin and i felt the attacks were unfair and suddenly I was political, it shocked even me.  But, despite the fact that sometimes they have trouble tolerating my friends and my constant learning about the nuances of politics and the fact that I'm an independent, they've been like a little extra family.  I picked well that day and just stayed, the people here are unusually brilliant in their comments and funny as hell and they think totally out of the box which is really what the country needs, out of the box thinkers who are brilliant and funny and love their country and the constitution with a fiery passion.   Plus Ace is very tolerable of new ideas, new slants and he isn't afraid to admit if he doesn't get something quite right and/or changes his mind.  then you know you have real people who are really thinking and sharing and trying to muddle through it all, together, while laughing.

Ace, rolls out the red carpet for his blog friends.  this allah guy has french provincial furniture that uncomfortable so you don't think of staying too long and he comes out in his pj's if you are there too late and he doesn't like how you are thinking and out you go.  So you come here to the easy chairs in a circle.

I've never really been to the guys site that much but this is based on everything I've read here, good and bad.  I wish the guy well, it's tough to make a living as a blogger but he has to remember "your friends are gold and should be savored"

538

>> I'm sure Atlas Shrugged is the best thing anyone will see tonight.

I stayed home and watched Lemonade Mouth.

(It was no GoodFellas, but who says it can't be?)

539

"A lot of the guys from the Delgado crew did time in the joint together. Stella's dad was doing a year for contempt. He had this way of slicing garlic with a razor so it would liquefy in the pan. And Wen's dad paid off the guards. Meanwhile, I was running stuff from this guy whose kid was in a band in Pittsburgh."

  -- from Lemonade Mounth 2: Alison's Dad Writes Back, release date 2013

540

How long before someone tries to make a movie out of the Windows 7 manual?

You learned the two most important things: Always exit Windows properly by clicking on Shut Down from the Start menu, and keep your mouth shut.

541 Thanks, Barry - gas is now $4.26 at the nearest station.

542 "In perhaps the most famous example, the brutal breakdown of Martin SheenÂ’s Captain Willard in the opening scene of Francis Ford CoppolaÂ’s Apocalypse Now is far more real than you can imagine. Explained in the documentary Heart of Darkness made about Apocalypse Now, the scene was shot on SheenÂ’s birthday. Sheen was extremely drunk and actually smashes his hand for real. The mental breakdown was genuine and the blood that he smears upon his face is entirely real." The apple does not fall from the tree.

543 565  sexy pig       The same I thought of.  Maybe "The ass does not get far from the hole?"

544 402 AtlasS report from Madison, Wi - 9:50pm showing.

I mostly went to support the film makers.

Posted by: SeeAtlasShruggedDrugged? at April 16, 2011 01:10 AM (0+8tx)

Temba, with his arms wide!

545 Things are what they are.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 16, 2011 04:35 AM (kaalw)

Yes, they damned well are. They are like this: He just trashed Bush as the worst president ever, and then said a few days later "I always say Carter was the worst". We all have problems with W's Presidency, but "worst?" And then to lie about it?

He gave money to Rahm for re-election in Chicago. Just recently. That's not "grease," no matter how you spin it.

I also know all about "grease" and getting shzt done in the City. Like getting a simple building inspection for a remod, or getting anything past Union bosses. That's not the same thing as Trump's sucking up to Dems, and trashing ideas that the Conservative base holds dear (and I don't me me, I'm not a Conservative).

People accept his pandering to the left as a "cost of doing business". Exactly what do you think the man is doing while pandering to the right? Being your friend? Supporting your ideas? Showing his true political preference?

Yeah, he's probably a real dedicated Conservative. Or something.

546 I have my young son with me this weekend, and there was no way he would sit through it.  But, he did want to see the Wimpy Kid movie.  So I bought my tix for Atlas even though we saw the other movie.  I will have to go see it later this week.

547 According to Box Office Mojo, AS had the third highest per screen box office total for Friday night.  Not bad.

548 111 Did people in your theater laugh out loud at that scene? Did you not immediately think of the ending of Star Wars III? And wasn't the voicemail a bit ridiculous? 1. No, nobody did. 2. I never saw Star Wars III. 3. No, I didn't think so.

549

535 [Saw the film a few hours ago, and would say this is a very well done review.]

This was the second day out, and the theater I went to was pretty sparsely attended. That being said, the place had 18 screens, and this was Saturday night, and I got the impression that none of the other screens had very many people either. This was the only showing of this movie in WNY, and WNY is pretty "blue", but what's up with all the other shows?

Back to the movie - to give you an idea of what one might enjoy, I also enjoyed "Dagny's takedown of the union rep". Their argument ends with the guy agreeing to allow his men to work for her, but he won't force them to work for her, and will recommend against it. She says she wouldn't have it any other way - that no man should be forced to work for anybody. (Leaving one to think, "Oh, wow -what a concept! Worker-bees actually deciding something for themselves!" - you won't see that in another movie.) It's one of numerous collectivist take-downs, which are rarely seen in film. The closest I can think of offhand is the bad guy in "Get Smart" sarcastically lamenting the potential loss of Hollywood stars' political activism - but he's the bad guy.

Then there are numerous moments where one can't help but marvel at "wow - that's sort of happening now - in the real world", knowing that it's basically following the book, which was written over 60 years ago.

They even capture the corruption of scientific institutions. The scene at the science institute had writing issues, but I couldn't help but think "Global Warming". Again, the woman nailed it, predicting even that from 60 years ago.

Come to think of it, the protrayal of the importance of "public opinion" is spot-on, too. Apply it to what's going on the the nuclear energy industry, and she's got that nailed, too.

This is the stuff we're going to the movie to see, and it's "in there."

Perhaps my main problem with the movie relates to how the book is split up into three parts. It seems like a fair amount of time is spent on various things - like their trying to find the inventor - which are not tied up. I recognize the difficulty but, each movie should be able to stand on it's own.

550 I thought this thread was dead last night, so I put my Atlas Shrugged review in the Saturday ONT. I was called insane, which may or may not be a compliment around here. I'll repost it in this thread for the record: I missed last night's thread where Atlas Shrugged was discussed, and was distressed by Ben's negative reaction, so I'll offer my rebuttal here. I've seen it twice and I loved it. (I decided to do that a while ago if I liked it, in order to give it a big opening weekend.) If anything, I liked it more the second time. On Friday night the theater was 1/3 full, which was disappointing. Tonight there were even fewer people, but there was a raging downpour going on which might have depressed turnout. Both nights, the audience applauded at the end. I read Atlas Shrugged in 1997 and I've read almost everything Rand published, including her philosophical essays. I first discovered her when I was almost 40, so her ideas were not an adolescent infatuation in my case. In fact, I didn't get around to reading AS until after I'd already read most of her other stuff. For a long time I couldn't imagine how a movie could be made from that book, it was so densely packed with characters, plot, and ideas. In addition, the book was published in 1957 when railroads were still a major form of transportation. They were soon surpassed by trucks and airlines, and most of the old railroads went out of business. So I was puzzled about how they were going to handle the time frame. If it was set in 1957, many younger people would regard it as a period piece with little relevance for today. It it was set in the present day, then how could a railroad be depicted as a vitally important industry? The filmmakers solved that problem by tacking on a beginning that explained how the Middle East had melted down, causing oil prices to skyrocket and making trains once again the most cost-effective means of transportation. Then they dove straight into the book. I thought that was a stroke of genius which was elegant in its simplicity. The filmmakers ruthlessly pared the book down to its essentials. It's only an hour and 40 minutes long, which I thought was shockingly brief. Yes, I would preferred it to be about 3 hours, but who else other than Rand fans would have gone to see it? A 9-part TV miniseries would have been even better, but there was only so much money available. The point is to get as many eyeballs in the theater as possible. You're not going to do that with long, intricate philosophical discussions. That's for books. Movies are for telling entertaining stories. I was initially skeptical when I first heard about this project, but I am very pleased with the result. I think they did about as good a job as could be done. This movie must succeed. Our country needs for it to succeed. The timing of its release could not be better. It's--dare I say--Providential. These kinds of ideas must be spread to as many people as possible. Lots of people have heard of Atlas Shrugged but never read it. If this movie sparks interest in some of those people to investigate Ayn Rand further, it will have done its job. This movie will be a hit if I have to drive the damn thing myself.

551 @578 Your comments are spot on. My wife and I just saw and we loved it.  I would add that it grabs you with fast pace and suspense (I read it  in '72).  Ben (@62) is entitled to his opinion, but some of his negative comments are misleading (e.g., "...scenic shots."). If you saw it, you know.  Don't let him discourage you. 

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